PARTY AVENUE

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Party Avenue is a music bar located in the Timog, QC area, or Scout Tuason to be exact. Last April 24, a fund raising musical show was hosted by the St. Scholastica Marikina alumni. And you guess it, the organizer is the HS class of Irene de Quiroz, erstwhile Neocafasinger! Despite the absence of Delfa who is on work mission outside the country, the Neos came not only to enjoy the Friday evening out but also to give moral support to a fellow Neo. The show program is simply designed around the talents of the St. Scho class members. The classmates would do their thing first and then the Neos would enter later in the evening. As the program started, the St. Scho batch lived up to their billing and set out to entertain the crowd sans inhibition. You really have to hand it to Pinoys (and Pinays) for carrying a tune. I thought that the St. Scho girls did well and can only surmised that they must be karaoke veterans!


Whereas the host class is the Batch of HS 81, you can compute for yourself the average age of the audience there. However, when the singing started the music was dominantly retro - our kind of music! To me, this is just another proof that the better songs for singing today is not the current pop music. When the Neos took the stage after the program, there was a little apprehension when Irene tried to explain the Neo group (or rather why she was visibly among Seniors!). The ice was broken when Dinky said that the only reason the Neos came to sing was because of one of the sponsors. We heard that they were distributing anti-aging cream!

Despite the unbalanced mics (Hec and Alex said they had no sound while Irene's was full blast), the tight stage (I was standing on wires and trying not to be strangled by Alex's crossing wire) and the garbled monitors (the feedback was louder than the melody), the Neos got on with it. Like real pros, the show must go on! Later Dinky tested the humor of the young audience by introducing the final song. In his UP drawl, he declared: "We are now singing Stasera, an Italian song. Baka kasi akala nyo wala kaming class!" Despite everything, I think they liked it.