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| Rainforest World Music Festival -2006 The Rainforest World Music Festival has just won the Pacific Asia Travel Association gold award 2006 in the Heritage and Culture category. PATA, the leading US-based travel industry, will be officially presenting 31 gold awards at the 55th annual conference in Pattaya, Thailand from 23rd – 27th April this year. And the festival comes to Kuching, Sarawak again from July 7th – 9th this year. Reputed for its very eclectic mix of bands each year, the festival will bring another seventeen bands to its two stages. The bands come from as many different corners of the globe and just as many different roots, folk and fusion sounds – all of them having a strong personalized ethnic identity that the festival hunts for each year. This year, there will be bands from South America, Korea, France, Mali, Austria, Canada,Turkey, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, as well as Malaysian bands from Kuala Lumpur and Sarawak, who has been the host and creator of the festival since 1998. Performers for RWMF 2006: TENGIR TOO (Kyrgyzstan) Old mountain music from Kyrgyzstan – spiritual, regal and full of the colours taken from nature and spectacular landscapes. This concert is supported and presented by the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia – a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. LES YEUX NOIRS (France) A band that will take you from dark melancholic laments to frenetic part gypsy, part Klezmer music. CALLE SUR (Latin America) Energetic entertaining infectious dance music from various ethnic from Latin America and the Caribbean basin. GENTICORUM (Canada) Traditional Quebecois tunes and tongue-in-cheek lyrics and humour from this entertaining trio. KILEMA (Madagascar) Multi-instrumentalist with soulful traditional songs from another Rainforest. MALAYSIAN DHOL FEDERATION (Malaysia) A Powerhouse of Percussion from the Punjab. NAHAWA DOUMBIA (Mali) Wassalou singer and taboo breaker with stories from her life in her songs. AYNUR (Turkey) A powerful soulful singer with a blend of Turkish, Kurdish and Greek traditions EGSCHIGLEN (Mongolia) Evocative throat singing and shamanistic folk music from the nomads of the grasslands. HOTEL PALINDRONE (Austria) Swedish, Balkan, Alpine, dance music performed using a wealth of instruments CHUNGMYUNG ART TROOP (Korea) Samul Nori folk percussion and dance from Korea at its most dynamic. The 3-day festival that goes from a Friday to a Sunday, has two components – workshops or mini-shows during the afternoons and evening shows under the stars in a lush rainforest atmosphere. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |