Jeremy Monteiro: THE Trio’s “Last Hurrah”

When you have a visitor from out of town you tend to go more  often on, what one could call excursions. Places that you do not visit for any other reason than showing it to someone of whom you think they have never seen something like it before. Like MBS.

I have a friend from Berlin visiting and I happened to know, from all the banners there was also the extreme sailing event on at Marina Bay, so there was a different view to offer from the normal glance on the iconic buildings of Singapore.

 I had also read a post by Jeremy Monteiro  that it was the last performance of him and his Trio

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 at The Shoppes at MBS, and logically I planned to stop by there as well. This way I had the full afternoon planned to entertain my friend. As so many days in the past period in Singapore it was a beautifully sunny breezy day. Good day for a sail!

As far as the music is concerned? Of course the band was fabulous. I guess the intent of many of the malls that offer this kind of entertainment, is for people to walk by and think how nice, or how classy. It is clearly not to sit down and listen for 20 minutes or more, because there is hardly any seating available.

I was a little bit embarrassed to be told by Jeremy that the trio had been playing this gig for the last 2 years. I had never visited before and here I was for the last one?! Jeremy mentioned he did not have any pictures of the gig. I did bring my camera, be it with a lens more suited for the action outside, and I took a few shots to try to capture some of the atmosphere. I did become painfully aware that in many of pictures I also saw an exit sign. The Shoppes were clear about that last gig.

This probably is not as sad for the musicians as it is for the Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands.

The musicians they dream of greener pastures

They embrace the future

And see things are bright outside of the mall.

For instance I know Jeremy will be back… next week…at MBS, at what looks like it will be a most spectacular Jazz festival in Singapore ever Sing-Jazz.

So there is reason to smile