S’pore’s National Day Parade 2021: What to expect and how to catch it live
SINGAPORE - The postponed National Day Parade will be held on Saturday (Aug 21), starting at 6.05pm. The parade and ceremony segment will feature the popular fighter jet aerial displays and the landing of Red Lions parachutists, while the show segment will focus on the Singapore Spirit in a display of the country's identity, resilience and can-do attitude. The parade will be live-streamed on the official NDPeeps Facebook and YouTube accounts. This year's show - helmed by creative director Boo Junfeng - has been kept under wraps, without the usual national education shows and previews that were previously open to the public. It will be hosted by Joakim Gomez, Eswari Gunasagar, Fauzie Laily and Patricia Mok, and feature about 600 live performers - a mere 30 per cent of the cast size at the last NDP held at the Marina Bay floating platform in 2018. Stars who will perform include Inch Chua, Alemay Fernandez, Mandopop duo The Freshman (comprising Carrie Yeo and Chen Diya), Benjamin Kheng, Nick Zavior and Yung Raja. This year's theme song, The Road Ahead, will be performed by singers Linying, Sezairi Sezali, Shabir Tabare Alam and Shye-Anne Brown. There are two other original NDP songs t...
