Sunday, December 10th, 2023
6:00PM-11:00PM EST
twitch.tv @ OngakuOverdrive
Ongaku Overdrive proudly presents our third 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. There will be a prize raffle at the end of the show as well. We are accepting donations on Tiltify that will benefit a wonderful charity organization known as Give Kids the World Village
Musical Lineup
Lauren the Flute
Lauren Liebowitz, aka LaurentheFlute, has been performing in the VGM scene since 2010. As the leader of The Returners, she’s played at PAX, MAGFest, and Ongaku Overdrive; as herself, she performs music, streams games, and analyzes game narrative on Twitch and YouTube. She plays flute and sings to bring her favorite video game music to life.
Ro Panuganti
Ro Panuganti is a Progressive Rock/Metal Musician from Raleigh NC, best known for his eclectic proggy albums based on Legend of Zelda, Undertale etc as well as producing VFX-heavy music videos. He has a passion for guitar, merging styles of Blues, Metal, Indian Fusion, and VGM. His works have been featured on Nickelodeon, smosh, indie games, and he’s produced over 15 of his own video game cover albums.
Ro currently balances producing his metal works, freelance music video editing, IT work, and helping produce for his wife Allison Martin and the community. Ro Panuganti’s Prog Experience will be performing at the upcoming Super MAGFest!
JOEY Z64
Coming from the Chicagoland area & living in the Twin Cities, JOEY Z64 is a nonbinary rapper making music for people who think too hard about everything all the time. Their music is a dark collection of LOUD, deeply personal feelings, cutting observations, & viciously insightful reflections. Their new projects deconstruct their complicated relationship with art & nostalgia: filthy, brain-rotting nostalgia, congealed with grimy retro soundtracks that feel like it should be the background music for a Street Fighter 3: Third Strike combo video from 2008.
There’s nobody who sounds like JOEY Z64.
At the show, you’re probably gonna make eye contact with them. It’s gonna feel weirdly intimate & meaningful. People will be laughing a lot & you will be crying. You will have a new favorite rapper, & it will be terrifying
Audio Mocha
Hailing from Medellin, Colombia and coming to you live from Colorado, Audio Mocha is here to bring you your favorite video game tunes with a tropical twist! A solo project led by Daniel Mateo, Audio Mocha is focused on creating surf rock and Latin rock remixes of mostly Nintendo songs.
Audio Mocha has a ton of jammin’ tunes from games like Legend of Zelda, Xenoblade Chronicles, Metroid, Super Mario, and more. So whether you want to headbang to tsunami-heavy surf punk or dance to some tropical beats, be sure to check out Audio Mocha’s set on Virtua Ongaku!
Jer Roque
Jer Roque is a pianist whose roots in the VGM community predate the turn of the century. He infuses elements of classical, jazz, pop, and rock into his playing. Current projects include streaming on Twitch three times a week and performing with the bands Playing With Power & Marshall Art.
In addition, Jer encourages the inclusion of video game music as part of a well-rounded music education by facilitating jam sessions and providing resources for educators & musicians of all kinds. He wants everyone to know that Chrono Trigger has the greatest video game music of all time, because it does.
Check out the official Virtua Ongaku playlist!
Prize Raffle
There will be a raffle around 10:55pm EST, after the final act. There will be at least nine (9) drawings and each of those winners will be contacted by us. Prizes will passes to Gatorland, Aquatica, Seaworld, ICE! at Gaylord Palms, Mega Ran’s “Black Materia Live” at Conduit on January 25th, and more. 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 toward Give Kids the World Village.
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