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Category: Interviews
Interview with Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Performers at 2014 Rainforest World Music Festival
Jamie Smith’s Mabon (JSM), an award winning, Welsh based band is of the UK’s finest original InterCeltic music performers, crossing borders to explore the forms…
Interview with Talago Buni, Performers at 2014 Rainforest World Music Festival
Talago Buni will present the music of the Minangkabau people from the coastal area of Sumatra (Indonesia) at the Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak…
Interview with Ding Yi Music Company, Performers at 2014 Borneo World Music Expo
Ding Yi Music Company (previously known as Arts Sphere Chamber Ensemble) was formed in 2007 and has been recognized as one of Singapore’s most extraordinary…
Interview with Blackbeard’s Tea Party, Performers at 2014 Rainforest World Music Festival
English band Blackbeard’s Tea Party is a young group of six young musicians who have taken the traditional songs of England and mixed it with…
Interview with Son Yambu, Performers at 2014 Rainforest World Music Festival
Son Yambu plays authentic ‘son cubano’ or Cuban son – the essential Afro-Cuban music that originated in the streets of eastern Cuba at the…
Borneo World Music Expo 2014 Ideal Platform for Traditional and Contemporary Southeast Asian World Music
The second edition of Borneo World Music Expo will be held June 16-18, 2014 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The host hotel is the Hilton…
Interview with Geng Wak Long, Performers at 2014 Rainforest World Music Festival
Geng Wak Long specializes in traditional Kelantan art genres as well as contemporary forms such as Shadow Play (Kelantan leather puppet theatre), dikir barat,…
Interview with Gordie Mackeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Performers at Rainforest World Music Festival
Gordie Mackeeman & His Rhythm Boys will bring their foot tapping old-time roots dance music from Prince Edward Island (Canada) to the 2014 Rainforest…
Interview with Japanese Folk Music Group Ryuz, Performer at Rainforest World Music Festival
Ryuz was formed in 2011 under the name of “Hidden Dragon,” and made its debut at the International Sharq Taronalari Music Festival in Samarkand,…