I am just back from Taylor's Lakeside Campus. It was a real developed college. What do I mean by 'developed'? It was like a high-end residential, or should I say commercial building by some famous developer. Oh it was a luxury one. I love the amphitheater. It reminds me to the life in Queenstown. I doubt all place other than Asia will have this open-air theater which people made use of, but Queenstown is the only place I've been staying for more than 3 months other than Malaysia.
Here is the quote for Rainforest World Music Festival:
The Rainforest World Music Festival is an annual 3-day music festival celebrating the diversity of world music, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, with daytime music workshops, cultural displays, craft displays, food stalls, and main-stage evening concerts. It is now one of the largest musical events in Malaysia with a total weekend audience approaching 30,000.
The festival features a wide range of performances from traditional music, to world fusion and contemporary world music. The festival emphasizes the use of traditional acoustic world instruments, although electric accompaniment instruments are common. Invited performers are prominent artists from Sarawak, other provinces of Malaysia, surrounding countries, and from around the world.
My bf's sister is a Taylor's student, and she was selling the ticket for the preview when I met her last month. Kindly bought 2, for bf and I. I was really interested in the music festival (I've been aiming for it, quitely for years!), and my bf was kinda forced to go. It cost RM20 each, including goodies bag etc.
The entrance is quite open, where you can easily walk in without buying any ticket. But the ticket allows you to get a goodies bag, which includes a T-Shirt of the Music festival, a can of drink, and vouchers for food and beverages, which they offer quite good food.
The show was kick-off by Taylor's students, or string band I supposed (since I saw a lot of string instruments), playing a lot of songs. The starting was not so well organised, but I can see the conductor, or whoever trained them, was putting more effort in the last 3 songs, which includes Hawaiian-Five-O theme song and Star Wars theme songs. They are wonderfully played. Bravo!
There are currently 21 bands that have been confirmed to perform during the real festival this year, however there are only 2 bands performing tonight. They are both trio, Paddy Keenan Trio from Ireland and Victor Valdez Trio from Mexico. I love both the music!!
I really loved Irish music! That was maybe 'The Corrs' influence. Their music was so Irish that when i was listening to it, I can imagine I was in the forest, listening to birds chipping, and nearly fall in meditate. The guy who sings has the voice that I really liked, low and easy. I should have listened to more Irish music since today. Good luck in their future performance!
About the Victor Valdes, they are wearing real Mexican attires, which I linked to Mr Potato's advertisement, and reminds me to nachos. The three performers are from Mexico, Argentina etc which I categorized in Spanish-speaking country, or Latin America perhaps. They do perform a lot of famous Mexican songs, including Besame Mucho (Kiss me a lot) and La Bamba. These songs are famous, but not well-introduce to Malaysians however.
I hoped to have chance to attend the real festival, somehow, someday. It was not easy to fly over to Kuching and join the whole festival, since I was not a real music person, neither music 200% lover. I just love music to be part of my life, not the whole of my life.
I shall end this post now. It has been 1am, and I am sick.
