Swinging into the global music scene at the Rainforest World Music Festival, Kuching, Sarawak. (Brief Communications). From: Borneo Research Bulletin | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Gorlinski, Gini | COPYRIGHT 1999 Borneo Research Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For the past two years, the Sarawak Cultural Village, just outside of Kuching, has hosted the Rainforest World Music Festival, an event uniting local musicians with international "world music" recording artists in a weekend of performances and collaborative workshops. Staged on the last weekend of August in both 1998 and 1999, the Festival has essentially coincided with Malaysia's National Day celebrations. As of September 1999, plans were already underway for a third production. D...

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