Sunday, December 8th, 2023
6:00PM-11:00PM EST
twitch.tv @ OngakuOverdrive
Ongaku Overdrive proudly presents our fourth annual Virtua Ongaku Holiday Special, a LIVE charity concert stream you can see for free on our Twitch channel! Expect a festive night of video game music and other nerdy jams. We are accepting donations on Tiltify that will benefit a wonderful charity organization known as Give Kids the World Village. There will be a prize raffle at the end of the show as well.
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Musical Lineup
Lacey Johnson
Lacey Johnson has been described as the “Queen of VGM (Video Game Music)”, “Bursting with energy” and is “spreading the gospel of VGM” wherever she goes. Lacey is a Southern-California based Video Game Musician currently creating bi-weekly covers on her YouTube channel in which she is the sole musician, producer, and arranger. Her live show is packed with your favorite video game tracks from several genres, some serious Keytar shredding, and high-energy good vibes to go around.
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Tiggs
Tiggs is a Singer and Audio Engineer primarily in the video game industry. She has performed on soundtracks such as Sony’s EVO 2023, Arknights, Deathbattle, Earthbound USA, Devin Townsend’s Lightwork, and many more! She is also active in the VGM cover scene, performing as a soloist and with many acts including Scarlet and Violet and Tournament Arc, performing at venues including MAGFest, MAGStock, and Ongaku Overdrive! She recently released her first album Video Game LoFi: World of Warcraft with Save Point, which is a vocal heavy LoFi arrangement album of World of Warcraft music.
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Ian Cowell
Ian Cowell is an East Bay Area musician, producer, engineer, and all-around master of the Dorkly Arts. A MIDIsexual amalgam of every guilty pleasure you’ve ever had, Ian Cowell is at first glance a Guitar Dude, but is more.
He has spent years arranging VGM classics and is also one-half of Bi Score and plays guitar in Oakland’s Psychic HIt
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Katie Shesko
Flute Enchantress Katie Shesko is a multifaceted artist, renowned for her exceptional talents as a flutist and her dedication as a speedrunner. She plays captivating renditions of video game and anime music, through which she has carved a unique niche for herself in the world of entertainment. Her love for music ignited at a young age, and she soon discovered her affinity for the flute and was determined to merge her love of music with her love of video games.
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Prize Raffle
There will be a raffle around 11:15pm EST, after the final act. We have multiple prize packs thanks to Paper Lab Studios and StellarNan. We will also have album codes for the first 50 donors, thanks to Bi Score and GameGrooves.
Every $5 donated to the Tiltify campaign will be an entry into the raffle. So if someone donates $25, that will be FIVE raffle entries! These donations will go directly toward Give Kids the World Village. We recommend that if you donate, that you list your Discord or Twitch handle so we can find you if you win prizes.
About Give Kids the World Village
Rated Four Stars by Charity Navigator, Give Kids the World Village is an 89-acre, whimsical nonprofit resort in Kissimmee, Florida, that provides week-long, cost-free wish vacations to critically ill children and their families from around the world who want to visit Central Florida. Since 1986, Give Kids the World Village has welcomed more than 177,000 families from all 50 states and 76 countries. The Village is made possible by the support of generous donors and community partners, as well as thousands of passionate volunteers – who donate their time and talent making wishes come true.
Virtua Ongaku artwork by Brotha Kyo