Synopsis
What is it about the Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival that attracts so many bands? Called The Ocean Music Festival in Chinese, this annual rock and roll contest was first organized by Taipei county in 2000. What is it about the festival that keeps the bands coming back year after year? What is that attracts hundreds of thousands of fans to pour into The Ocean to hear the music, eagerly awaiting next year's festival as soon as this year's is over? All the bands striving to succeed at this summer event comes with its own attitude, its own story. But what they have in common is a striving for the chance to get up on their stage and dazzle hundreds of thousands of onlookers, just like The Ocean does every year.
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