Chicago Concert 12-27-2015

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Yes! Steven finally retired his overused shanghai bund medley. Though audiences are mostly different for each concert but yay to his finally revamping his song repertoire with new songs.

His security guards definitely worked hard for their money 'protecting' their subject from overzealous fans.

Putting aside the obvious safety issues, I'm of two minds about singers (not just Steven) shaking hands with fans on or off stage. On the one hand, singer-fans' physical interactions naturally induce and inject excitement into an already heightened, contagious atmosphere of anticipation   - exactly how a spirited and animated idol concert should be. On the other hand, the pandemonium caused can be/is disruptive to audience's overall enjoyment in that their view is being constantly and consistently blocked by the crowds pooling at the the stage (especially irksome to those who paid good money for premier seating). I myself was both irked and distracted by fans constantly rushing down from all directions toward the stage during a performance. But then what's an idol concert without these small bands of zealous fans whipping up excitement, eh? Yes, excitement heightens the atmosphere but can excitement be aroused without the said distractions during the performance? Maybe all physical interactions should be relegated towards the end of the concert? Quite a dilemma!
What say you?

2015 June Concert Outfits

Luxe Tuxedo outfits worn at his June 7 - 8 concerts.
source:SM official FB

notice: Steven and Susanna's 2 concerts sold out

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Check out the humongous signboard. No wonder the tickets on ticketmasters for both shows sold quickly. Congratz to Steven and Susanna.

Hopefully, Steven gets to visit the Niagara Falls in situ and not just admire it from afar and through a glass window, no less.

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weibo 2015 6/6 Niagara Falls, Canada

2015-06-06 21:04  Good morning! After breakfast, went jogging and then gym. Will go to rehearsal later! Toronto's weather is great. Heard both shows are sold out!  Give thanks! Hallelujah! P.S. Maybe lack of sleep, so today's double eyelids are very pronounced. Haha!


早晨，吃完早餐，跑步後健身，之後出發綵排！多倫多天氣很好，聽說兩場已爆滿，感恩！Hallelujah ！p.s.可能睡得不太夠，今天雙眼皮很深哈哈！！ haha!!




Steven has mentioned a few times on weibo that his eyes would appear bigger and his double eyelids more pronounced if he lacks sleep.


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Waiting a HK airport

6月5日 16:19 

The night before flying off  to Canada

6月4日 22:41

Updated 3/30: Steven and Lee Yi-Jun 李翊君's Mother's Day weekend Concert

Steven and Lee Yi-Jun's (李翊君) 2 US concerts with 3 showings at 2 different locations in California, namely Harrah's and Cache Creek Resort, respectively.

Updated 3/30/ Harrah's concert is confirmed by Jade entertainment. Steven's previous concerts in California were also organized by the very same company, hopefully the company will organize an autograph signing + press session at each venue too like they did before. re tag 2012 concerts link1; link2; link3

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Eta: Besides online, tickets can also be purchased from these travel agencies:
歡樂旅遊(San Francisco) 415-392-8928
恒豐旅遊(Mid-Peninsular) 650-692-6118
活力旅遊(Oakland) 510-663-1268
美國旅遊(Sacramento) 916-737-9287

If join bus tour to see the show at Cache Creek, the ticket holders will get a $30 play coupon and a $5 meal voucher from the said hotel.

All other ticket holders will get a free $20 play coupon from Cache Creek upon request.

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May 9th 2015 (Sat) Mother's Day Concert @ 8 pm at Harrah’s Resort, Valley Center, CA. Ticket at Ticketmaster 

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May 10th (Sun) at 2 pm and 5pm respectively at Cache Creek Resort, Brooks, CA.  Scroll down to click on Cache Creek box office for tickets.

Browsing the Cache Creek tickets site, not many seats are available for purchase.
Looks like, there is only one price for all seatings at US$118. Haiz! Steven, is there a reason for not giving your fans a head's up on your upcoming concerts?

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ETA 3/27/2015 Well, Harrah's tickets are now on sale on ticketmaster. So, Steven's concert should be held at Harrah's instead of Pechanga as previously stated by Sandy Lau. May 9th 2015 (Sat) Mother's Day Concert @ 8 pm at Harrah’s Resort, Valley Center, CA. Ticket on sale 3/27 @ 10 am at Ticketmaster 

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Updated 3/30/2015: It's confirmed Harrah's not Pechanga is the venue of Steven's upcoming concert.

Per Sandy Lau's info: May 9th 2015 Mother's Day Concert is at Pechanga Resort and Casion, Temecula, CA. But I can't find Steven concert on its event listing. Sandy Lau's info left on SM FB says that Steven's May 9th concert is held at Pechanga Resort. So, not Harrah's as listed on Ticketmaster (tickets sale starts 3/27)? Confused, I called up Pechanga,and was told there's no SM concert scheduled at all at their place. Next, I called up Harrah's and was told there is indeed a confirmed Chinese concert scheduled on May 9th at their resort but has no info on who the performers are. So, either the venue has since changed per Sandy's info or Sandy made a mistake.  Revised 3/29: concert confirmed at Harrah's.

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I once looped Lee Yi-jun's 雨蝶 (sub-theme song on Huan Zhu Ge Ge 1)  on u2b.

originally posted 3/24/15, 2:50 PM
Steven and Susanna Niagara Fall, Canada Concert

GH Steven Ma's costumes 8/22-8/23 2014

Thank you to those who made the effort to snap photos and upload them to share with fans. I know first hand just how difficult and distracting it could be to snap photos while watching a concert. Below are selected photos to show off Steven's costumes worn in his 3-day concert. Personally, besides the traditional and staid suit and tie costumes, I wish Steven would be more flamboyant, bold and diverse with his stage costumes style and colors, heck, why not thrown in a Chinese robe with hat when singing his Shanghai Bund medley or dressed like Sam Siu in a zhong shan tunic when singing Heaven's Will. Steven always looks so good in those two period costumes so show off that scholarly and elegant side of him to the fullest, at the same time breaking the monotony of dark and white suits.

Also, in future concerts besides displaying his elegance, charms, playfulness, spontaneity and the gift of gab, he can also reinvent his stage persona by displaying the sultry and sexy side of him - dare to do a Latin Dance number dressed in a slinky form-fitting costume  (scroll to SM-Sonija vid or samba) or a smooth elegant waltz attired in his ballroom tuxedo. (ref.waltz mv)  Anyway, of all his live singing performances I've watched online to date, I love his youtube愛之初体驗; fanblog the most because his exuberance doing doing that little dance number is so obvious therefore very contagious even thru my computer screen;  I'd love to have watched him perform that live on stage.

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Notice: Steven and Susanna Kwan Malaysian Concert 3 nights in a row

Calling all sm Malaysian fans, book your tickets NOW!
Put in your song requests for him to sing in concert. weibo 2014-05-28 16:23
August 21, 22, 23 at 8:30 pm Resorts World Genting website

Steven and Susanna's "相思風雨中" duet in TVB 2007(?) 超級靚聲演鬥廳(5) Supermix duet.

Steven's not feeling well in his concert

credit 蓉蓉細語  May 12 22:16   Steven keeping fit

May 11 16:47  The concert has ended, my thanks to all who were there for their support and enthusiasm. I'm very happy! Thank you to friends and little piggies for their concern. My health has improved, at least it did not affect my performance (actually it did a little la. This got to be the most times I messed up my lyrics.) But, I'm truly grateful to have successfully completed the show!  Aside, I want to send in my belated Mother's Day's best wishes; wishing mothers everywhere peace, good health and happiness, and also hope my mother in heaven heard me sing「倦」for her. May 11 22:40 I've had diarrhea for two days consecutively so of course become thinner! Don't worry, I'm fine now after my sleep. 

May 10 10:35   I already had a stomach ache on the eve of departure, and it got worse when I got to America. So painful I could hardly stand up straight. Fortunately, I've brought along some relief medicines. Today, the condition has improved. The show is tomorrow, hope the pain will leave soon! Praying! ..p.s. did not drink any coffee or coke; food intake went down; milk drinking went up. Suddenly thin again...

May 8 17:34  Despite a fitful sleep last night the eyes looked even bigger. haha! Getting ready to leave for the Atlantic City concert, hope everything goes well!

note: From the wenweipo news report, looks like Steven had a bad case of food poisoning - bad enough when it happened at home but must worse in Steven's case. 

Steven Ma releases Christian music album

馬浚偉出福音碟冇諗賺錢
After a ten-year lapse, Steven Ma will release a Christian songs cd on June 26th.  When asked if he worries about the album sales, he said: "I'm not all that worried. The cd is a Christian songs hifi cd. And don't think too much on whether it will sell or not.  Anyway, I'm very satisfied with the end product's quality. Many churches and other groups are interested in buying it."  He said he hopes to release an album every year.

Aside, on July 13th and 14th Steven and a non-profit Christian youth music ministry (The Bridge Music) will hold a charity concert at KITEC.  The net proceeds from the ticket sales will be all donated to TBM as funds raising for its next project to spread Christian values to students through music.   Presently, in between shooting Property Protector, Steve is busy rehearsing for his mini concert. He said: "This is my first time collaborating with this group; I think it is very meaningful."

source: orientaldaily 2013/6/20

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Pala Casino Christmas concert

credit: Photography by TaTa FB

credit: Jade Entertainment fb

2012 Dec 22nd Cache Creek Casino Christmas concert

Steven & Peggy Liu's 12-21-2012 Pala Casino press conference

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Haiz! Don't understand why the quality of the uploaded video here is so much worse than the original on youtube.

lol at Steven's hairstyle! But he looks good overall.

Updated 9/4/2013: Steven Ma holds US concerts, hand 'see' red first.

Updated: sm baidu link

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Steven Ma holds US concert, hand sees 'red' first.
馬仔美國登台「手」先見紅

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12/27/2012: During the Doomsday period (12/21), Steven Ma was in the US holding two concerts (2 shows in San Francisco (12/22) and 1 show in Los Angeles (12/23). He sang many classic songs including Shanghai Bund, Return of the Condor Lovers, etc., and his own series themesongs including those for 'Where the Legend Begins', 'Perish in the Name of Love', and 'The Life and Times of a Sentinel'.

Steven's shows went smoothly with fans displaying great enthusiasm. The atmosphere pumped up with wave after wave of frenzy from the fans, but unexpectedly in the Los Angeles concert, an incident happened. When Steven got off stage to shake hands with the fans on the floor, besides being taken advantage of by ardent fans (抽水), his face and head touched intimately, he was also mobbed by fans jostling for a handshake with him. Maybe because of the fans' frenzied grabbing, Steven thumb suddenly spurted blood (爆拇指), and both his hands were later found badly skinned and marked with red scratches. Steven did not mind the fans’ display of ardor. Luckily the mishap is offset by gain. The fans in the audience chased after Steven to give him big lai si. (lucky red packets). When asked about his hands, Steven chuckled and jested that New Year was not even here yet but his hand already saw 'red', for sure he will have luck on New Year's Day.

Steven said: "Very happy my performances went smoothly. (But your hands got hurt wo?) No problem; it's fine! The fans here had not seen me for a long time, so naturally when they saw me they were very enthusiastic. They were overly polite (hak hei) - gave me big 'lai si' (lucky red packet). I told them New Year’s Eve still a few days away but they said the few days difference don’t matter. Since they get to see me now they want to give me the lai si in advance.”

Seeing the warm and fervent reception in Steven's concerts, the event organizer, Janice, immediately invited Steven to hold more concerts in other US cities.

When queried about his plans for next year, Steven says: “First of all, good wishes to everybody for the upcoming year. For myself, I’m presently collecting new songs. In fact, I've just finished composing and writing my first song ever. I’m also learning how to direct and produce series. Hopefully, my acting and singing careers will advance together.”

sources: wenweipo, singpao, Tungstar

TN: Haha! I overlook Steven in the 2nd pix surrounded by fans.

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Weibo entries:
miumiukitty: Steven,your show was so good. u look very cute and young and your outfits are very pretty too.

HxH-H weibo
This pix was taken when Steven was holding my hand. The aunties behind me were so aggressive bah.  How come Steven has become so much better looking now?

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HxH-H:The aunties were super crazy! 
A: Maybe he now has hair? 
HxH-H:The aunties love him. His eyes look bigger and his face shape nicer.
B: Plastic surgery? 

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EllllllllllllliE：Saw Steven Ma today. Very handsome, very charismatic. Though his age is almost doubled mine but when conversing felt as if talking amicably to own brother.

Daniel_李：Went to the casino to watch Steven Ma's concert. Those si-na fans sitting in the front rows were so crazy = =!

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Steven sees 'red' when filming a Stupid Cupid scene.

Warm audience

12月23日22:57  Last night (US time) concert venue can accommodate 2000 people. The sound system is excellent! Truly very thankful to last night audience. Your enthusiasm and support was my greatest motivation.  Thank you! Thankful, and praise the Lord!!

Candid pix of Steven in US concerts

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