This year’s National Day Parade will be held at the Padang, with the celebrations extending to the Promontory at Marina Bay for the first time, in a special collaboration with NTUC.
Themed “Together, As One United People”, acts will include pre-parade performances by students, local artistes and the Red Lions; a Parade and Ceremony segment with a combined military tattoo by the SAF Band and secondary school bands; and a Volunteer Contingent segment highlighting civic roles; not forgetting key moments such as the State Flag Flypast, the Salute to the Nation, the Presidential Gun Salute and the Feu de Joie.
For the first time, a segment will involve contingents advancing onto the spectator stands. Another debuting segment is the Total Defence 40 (TD40) Dynamic Defence display “Together, We Are Strong”, which will showcase integrated responses to threats through coordinated displays between the Padang and Marina Bay.
A show segment titled “Our People” will celebrate Singapore’s strength and diversity through performances and filmlets.
You can watch the NDP on free-to-air TV channels Channel 5, Channel 8, Channel U, Suria and Vasantham; listen to it on CNA938, Capital 958, Warna 942 and Oli 968, and stream it on Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube and other digital platforms.
For more information on the National Day Parade 2024, visit NDP’s website.
GARDENS BY THE BAY AND MEDIACORP NATIONAL DAY CONCERT, Aug 17 at 7.30pm
The latest edition of Gardens by the Bay and Mediacorp National Day Concert will take place live on Aug 4 at The Meadow at Gardens by the Bay.
If you can’t be there in person, you can always check out the telecast on Channel 5, mewatch and Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube on Aug 17 starting at 7.30pm.
Themed “Our Home, Our Heart, Our Singapore”, the concert will feature performances by homegrown artistes including Olivia Ong, Shabir, Yung Raja, Taufik Batisah, Sezairi and Benjamin Kheng.
Liu Ling Ling, Rahimah Rahim and John Klass will perform a medley of Singapore folk songs like Singapore Town and Munneru Vaalibaa, while Mediacorp artistes Bonnie Loo, Desmond Ng, Jeremy Chan and JJ Neo will join hands with the talents from Mediacorp’s reality singing competitions Juara Mic Junior and Yaar Antha Star for a performance of K-pop boy band BTS’ catchy track Butter.
Guest of honour President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, alongside Ms Jane Ittogi, will introduce themselves in sign language and lead the audience in the pledge recitation, accompanied by members of the Singapore Association for the Deaf signing along during the finale.
NEW ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES, AUG 8 and 9