The Hong Kong Arts Festival 2009 is approaching to its end. The shows this year are really good. Bravo, the programme committee!

I’ll write about all the performances I have watched, starting with Lisa Ono: A Celebration of 50 Years of Bossa Nova.

This was the first time to see Ono in live. She is such an elegant lady with a beautiful voice (stable performance with CD quality)! I am not particularly fond of Bossa Nova, but Ono’s performance was stunning. It’s like you are lying under the water and everything is so calm and peaceful.

Ono, with her band did some of her famous Bossa Nova songs like Garota de Ipanema, and also some rearranged Jazz songs and soul music such as Moonriver and (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay. She also sang 2 songs in Chinese (夜來香&朋友) to thank the Hong Kong audience.

I was so moved when she sang (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay (Soul song written and performed by American soul singer Otis Redding in 1967, 3 days before he was killed in a plane crash…). The lyric is really cool, and it is exactly what I’d do when I have time.

Dock of the Bay (Photo taken in San Sebastian, Spain, Aug2008)

*remark on the photo: I think it’d be fun to make the photo looks vintag for the song~

(SITTIN' ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY

Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
Watching the ships roll in
And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah

  I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
  Watching the tide roll away
  Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
  Wastin' time

I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the 'Frisco bay
'Cause I've had nothing to live for
And look like nothin's gonna come my way

  So I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay
  Watching the tide roll away
  Ooo, I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
  Wastin' time

Look like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes
Sittin' here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone
It's two thousand miles I roamed
Just to make this dock my home

  Now, I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay
  Watching the tide roll away
  Oooo-wee, sittin' on the dock of the bay
  Wastin' time