The Taipei City Government will host a series of concerts and an art exhibition starting on Tuesday to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the 228 Incident.

Thanks to record collector Lin Tai-wei, the public will also be able to hear the first Taiwanese song banned by the government in 1934 - Wandering in the Streets - using a victrola during the concert.

Sharing his collection of records during a press conference at the 228 Memorial Museum on Friday, Lin said the song was banned because it described the difficulties experienced by people in finding employment and feeding their families as a result of a sluggish economy.

The event will also feature an art exhibition with 48 paintings collected by a 228 victim’s family member, Liao De-cheng.

The 228 Incident refers to the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) bloody crackdown on demonstrators and local elite under Dictator Chiang Kai-shek’s administration. On the night of Feb. 27, 1947, a woman named Lin Chiang-mai, who had been selling smuggled cigarettes in Taipei, was beaten with a pistol by an agent from the Taiwan Monopoly Bureau.

Lin was left bloody and unconscious on the ground. An angry crowd gathered and turned on the agents, who fired their guns wildly to escape, killing a man named Chen Wen-hsi. When monopoly agents were discovered pistol-whipping two children for a similar offense the following day, an angry crowd beat the agents to death. The incident then sparked island-wide anti-KMT protests and riots.

KMT troops were rushed from China in early March to quell the disturbances and as a result tens of thousands of Taiwanese were killed.

The Taipei City Cultural Affairs Department on Friday invited residents to claim free concert tickets at the department, City Stage or the 228 Memorial Museum.