Ethnic beat: Members of Tuku Kame from Sarawak performing at the Rainforest World Music Festival in Santubong near Kuching on Saturday night.KUCHING: It was great music as thousands danced to the drumbeats at the Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak Cultural Village in Santubong near here.
Partying all night long, music fans had a great time as the seven foreign and local musical groups thrilled them during the five-hour concert on Saturday.
The organisers estimated the crowd for the three nightly concerts to be 24,000 this year, up from 22,000 who attended the music festival last year.
The organising board was considering organising mini concerts next year in other venues in the city, like at the ampitheatre at Jalan Budaya, to enable more people to enjoy the popular musical event.
The musicians who performed on Saturday were Sheldon Blackman (from Trinidad and Tobago), Hiroshi Motorfuji (Japan), Yakande (Gambia/Guinea), Adel Salameh (Palestine/Algeria), Beltaine (Poland), Kelabit band Kani’d and Tuku Kame (both from Sarawak).
Besides the nightly concerts, musical workshops that featured the performing bands held in the afternoon sessions were also crowd pullers.
The workshops were held simultaneously in separate native traditional houses in the village.
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