Little did Jah Wobble realise that from such a little acorn project would continue to grow and thrive, and five years on, he is returning to Liverpool to witness the progress of the youth orchestra, leading the evening performance with award winning songs from Chinese Dub, Jasmine Flower and something new to the young people - Reggae!
The International Festival For Business, hosted in Liverpool this year, is funding Jasmine Flower Fusion.
Liverpool's Resonate Music Education Hub and Our Big Gig, a national celebration of music are also at the heart of the event as Jah Wobble and the Pagoda Youth Orchestra invite the public to join them in the creation of Chinese music.
An accompanying workshop is being held at the Pagoda Arts Centre ahead of the evening concert. It will enable participants to learn how to make Chinese music on Western instruments and try some of the Chinese instruments for themselves.
Commenting on Saturday's performance, Jah Wobble promises "a heady brew of East-West fusion as Chinese music gets the dub treatment".
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Artistic Director of the Pagoda Arts Centre Zi Lan Liao said "Everyone at Pagoda Arts is very excited about this project and looking forward to bringing the orchestra into a new musical phrase."
As one music critic commented: "The music is of the here and now, underpinned by Wobble's agile, reggaematic pulse. His prolific, varied output has made him a hard man to place, but here the punk wars survivor has produced something special."
Mr Li, or Liao Gui Xiong, a classically trained musician, arrived in Liverpool from south China in the early 1980s and established the orchestra that would play concerts in London's Royal Albert Hall as well as the Shanghai World Expo. He died last July.
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