More than 100 prominent musicians and celebrities from the Chinese mainland and overseas will gather in the Macao Special Administrative Region on Sunday evening for the Greater Bay Area Film Concert 2024 to celebrate the coming of autumn -- a season that embodies harvest and family reunion in Chinese culture -- with songs and performances.
From 8 pm, the show will comprise five chapters featuring new and classic songs, choruses, piano playing and a recitation, and end with a chorus with students and children from across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The celebrities attending include Jackie Chan, Hacken Lee, Karen Mok Man-wai, Wang Leehom, Richard Marx and other top local and overseas artistes.
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This year also features mainland athletes who shined at the 2024 Paris Olympics to share in the joy by performing on stage. They include table tennis medalist Fan Zhendong, diving champion Quan Hongchan and twins Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi, who won the nation’s first-ever Olympic duet gold medal in artistic swimming. They will sing a song together with renowned mainland singer Wang Fong.
Veteran Hong Kong actress and television personality Elizabeth Wang Ming-chuen and mainland actor Zhang Yi will host the event, in collaboration with Alec Su You-peng, Lan Yu, Liu Naiqi and Tian Chuan.
As of 4pm on Sunday, topics relating to the gala had become popular in social media platforms like Weibo.
The show, co-organized by China Central Television, the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau, Bauhinia Cultural Group and Phoenix TV, will be broadcast to a global audience on China Central Television and leading television stations in the Greater Bay Area, as well as new media platforms, including China Daily and Xinhua News Agency.
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As a cultural brand of the 11-city cluster, the GBA Film Concert had been held twice in 2021 and last year in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, respectively. Both concerts featured the Mid-Autumn Festival theme, highlighting the warmth of the traditional culture and the achievements of the Greater Bay Area.
