In 2019, an album titled ‘My Name’ introduced Jiao Maiqi to the public. In the same year, the ‘My Name’ livehouse national tour concert made many people fall in love with this post-90s singer-songwriter full of whimsy in music. Four years later, today, the production company ‘Youci Mountain Culture’ and the full-range host ‘Chinese Culture Performance’ jointly announced the official announcement of Jiao Maiqi’s second tour – the ‘Swimming Home’ national tour concert. The first round of official announcements in 2023 includes five cities: Wuhan, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Changsha, and Chengdu. The first stop in Wuhan was a success. Shenzhen followed on July 15th. Nanjing was on August 5th. Changsha was on December 2nd. Chengdu was on December 9th. Shanghai was on April 13th, 2024. Beijing was on June 1st. Hangzhou was on July 13th, where Jiao Maiqi met with fans. The Suzhou concert will be held on November 2nd, 2024. Since his debut, Jiao Maiqi has maintained a strong creative force and has become increasingly mature through various music festivals and music variety shows. He has also moved from livehouse to larger stages. The new second tour is set in a stadium that can accommodate more audiences. Jiao Maiqi, after four years, will present himself to the audience with a new look, both in terms of the richness of the music content and the performance on stage. If ‘My Name’ was the expression of Jiao Maiqi’s youthful thoughts, then the second album ‘Alien’ was a highly free creative experiment, showing everyone more possibilities.For this concert, the stage design will be more in line with Jiao Maiqi’s current musical temperament. It will maintain the image of a young and mischievous boy while showing a more multifaceted and three-dimensional journey of growth. There is the energetic and vibrant Jiao Maiqi that everyone knows, and there is also his mysterious side and thoughts about the world, which is both a display of self-realization and a growth in debate. The overall concert will realize creative ideas through sound and light perception and spatial thinking and create. It uses elements such as music sound effects, makeup, text, and vision to form multiple nested and progressive units, and immersively feel the singer’s thoughts at different times under the subdivided sections. Through this stage design, stage performance, and other aspects, everyone can have a brand-new visual experience, entering a fictional fantasy, a lingering summer, a strange world that belongs to Jiao Maiqi.
The arrangement of the concert’s playlist is a dialogue between Jiao Maiqi’s past and future. In addition to spanning two albums – ‘My Name’ and ‘Alien’, the playlist also includes many classic songs that Jiao Maiqi has participated in covering in recent years. Jiao Maiqi is also planning to perform new album tracks that have not been released at the concert. The setlist begins with the fantastic journey of ‘Alien’ and spans to the boundless imagination of a young boy: from visiting the romantic galaxy to the self-reflection upon returning to ‘Earth’.Jiao Maiqi’s multifaceted image is constructed through a structural arrangement that carefully sequences and combines various elements. The performance unfolds in multiple chapters, each featuring a meticulously designed combination of songs, giving the impression of an unfinished story that is eager to continue. Join us as we set off together to follow Jiao Maiqi on his journey through his own magical waters.
The Suzhou stop of this enchanting event is scheduled for November 2nd, 2024, at Suzhou Sports Center Stadium. The event will commence at 19:00 on Saturday, November 2nd, and is anticipated to last approximately 120 minutes, though this is subject to the actual duration of the performance.
