MANILA, Philippines - Celebrate the season of hearts with Side A, Freestyle and Nina in the repeat of Love2Love2Love at the Araneta Coliseum, 8 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2010.

Viva Concerts & Events is bringing back the show due to insistent public demand.

Enjoy a romantic evening as the two bands and the soul siren serenade you with their hits such as So Many Questions, Love Is Here To Stay, Forevermore, Before I Let You Go, So Slow, Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang, Love Moves In Mysterious Ways, Jealous, Don?t Wanna Be Your Friend, I Can?t Make You Love Me and many more.

The concert scene will be in nostalgia mode in 2010, with the retro season to be ushered in by The Beach Boys who are slated to perform in a concert, the group?s second time, at the Big Dome on Jan. 27.

Billed as The Beach Boys Live In Manila!, the one-night musical event to be mounted by Ovation Productions will reunite the legendary group headed by founding member and lead vocalist Mike Love.

Once more, with more feeling, Beach Boys fans will have their fill of classic songs which have become eternal anthems of American youth, including their first hit, Surfin?; Surfin? USA; Surfer Girl; Fun, Fun, Fun; I Get Around; California Girls; Help Me Rhonda; Barbara Anna; Good Vibrations; Wouldn?t It Be Nice; Rock and Roll Music; Kokomo; and many more.

An eloquent testament to The Beach Boys? enduring popularity was their initial performance here on Oct. 7, 2005, also at the Big Dome and from Ovation Productions, when they brought the house down as the overflow audience of singing, swinging and swaying fans clamored for more and ceased only after they promised to ?see you again.?

That promise will come true on Jan. 27.

MANILA - Stamina is apparently not an issue for boxer Manny Pacquiao. Straight after his much-awaited fight against Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas, the Filipino pound-for-pound champion held a mini-concert at a post-fight after-party in Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

Pacquiao still sported fresh facial injuries and a white bandage around his right ear when he belted out tunes like "La Bamba", "Pilipino", and "Maghintay Ka Lamang."

The boxer had just come from a 12-round bout with Cotto, where he beat the Puerto Rican with a technical knockout in the last round.

The Mandalay Bay Resort is about 3 blocks away from the MGM Grand Arena, where the "Firepower" match was held.

Though visibly injured and tired from the fight, Pacquiao gamely sang songs upon the request of Filipino and American audiences at Mandalay Bay.

Earth, Wind & Fire is an African American R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and led by founder Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the Elements or the Elements of the Universe, the band has won 10 Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Having sold over 90 million albums worldwide has earned them a place on the list of best-selling music artists, ranked as the seventh best-selling American band of all time. Rolling Stone has described them as ?innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing? and has also declared that the band ?changed the sound of black pop?.

The band?s music contains elements of African, Latin American, funk, soul, pop and rock music, jazz and other genres, as well.

Billed as The Original Earth, Wind & Fire, the band is having a concert at the PICC Reception Hall on Dec. 5.

Listed as EWF members are Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Ralph Johnson, John Paris, B. David Whitworth, Greg ?G-Mo? Moore, Gary Bias, Bobby Burns Jr., Krystal Bailey, Kim Johnson, Reggie Young and Verdine White, the vocalist with whom Funfare had an exclusive phone interview.

Excerpts:

Why do you call yourselves The Original Earth, Wind & Fire?

?That?s what we are, The Original, and that?s what everybody calls us. Other people would call us The Fire for short. It?s a great name, isn?t it??

MANILA, Philippines - Erik Santos is one of the top balladeers in the land. Years after he won in Star In A Million, people still can?t stop raving about his rendition of This Is The Moment from the musical Jekyll and Hyde. Recently, he was picked to be the first Filipino artist to record a full album of songs by American singer-songwriter Jim Brickman.

Sitti Navarro is the country?s Bossa Nova diva. If Erik is power singing personified, Sitti is, like the Bossa Nova music she helped popularize, low-key and relaxing. Sitti?s 2006 debut album Café Bossa touched off a musical revolution of sorts and spawned dozens of copycats. Single-handedly, she redefined Bossa Nova music for the current generation of music-lovers.

Erik and Sitti may have contrasting musical styles, but it is precisely these that make them such an interesting on stage tandem. Live Artists Productions and Support Our Troops, Inc. saw the potential in their team-up and put them together in Extraordinary Songs, a concert on Nov. 21, 9 p.m. at the Aliw Theater.

Directed by Calvin Neria with musical direction by Beth Martin from a script by Noel Ferrer, Extraordinary Songs is for the benefit of Support Our Troops, Inc. and the victims of Ondoy and Pepeng. Joining the show as guest is The CompanY.