Asia Music Festival 2013 - Actual day (2 awesome days)

by RihanNa (bukan Nama Sebenar)

So the inaugural Asia Music festival has come to an end on 5th October 2013 on last Sat. The performances was awesome. The total amount of visitors were unexpected. I can say it was a success for Sarawak Tourism Board even though some may said the advertisement done for this event was not enough.

In total,  it was counted that almost 4000 visitors or to be exact is 3962 attendees (based on numbers of total badges sold) for 2 days. What a great success? Wasn't it?

Tadaaaaa..... nice right? This is my tag for 2 days event representing Sarawak Bloggers. And all of us (8 members in total) have that Photographer pass for easy access to Photographer pit in front of the stage.

Datu' Rashid and Starlets Band

All

DJ Kiyoshi Hitz.fm and DJ Afick from Era

Muka letih

On our way to the tree planting site

Hevance and their planted tree

Hevance again. goofing around.

Mesraaaa abg Bob Yusof planting his tree

Tenby School Students and Teachers

Datu' Rashid and Mayor Lawrence Lai

Abg Fakhrul Razi from Brunei

Mari Bergambar bersama Abg Bob kitaaa...

With the lady boss (Eileen)

So the first day on 4th October, the Asia Music Festival 2013 started off with Tree Planting Ceremony. Most of the performers who have arrived, attend this ceremony. Apart from that, there were #astroradio people, #kristalfm #brunei, and press people from most Asian countries had joined this amazing event. 

Meet DJ Kiyoshi from HItz.fm presenting free ticket to a lucky Aunty

From left, Aesya Salleh (Noh's sister), Afick(erafm), Kiyoshi(Hitxfm),Dj Daffy(Kristal.fm Brunei), Aziz (Borneo Bulletin) and Lim, front Petrus and Fabian (Sarawak Bloggers) and at the back is Farihan Padilla (Gaya Travel)

Asia Food Festival

 Varieties of food and dishes were sold that day. I still have my coupons. I literally forgot to spend it on that day. coz i was too 'syiok' with the performances.seriously. There are handicraft and tatttoo making booth along the way from the entrance too.

meet the sound engineer.

Afick Era and Kiyoshi of Hitz.fm

selfie with Farihan

Selfie lagi with the boys and farihan

 The first day performer was the Starlets band.I didnt really get their first day picture. But I heard their performance from the front lobby. lol.I knew the band tho. they had perform before during Zee Avi Homecoming concert last year. Was waiting for my wrist tag from LadyBird Eileen (Miri Coordinator - Sarawak Blogger) So when Hevance started their performance, I finally got my wrist tag. This band is awesome. They were invited to perform at Hard Rock Cafe in Penang recently. Some of you might never heard about this band.To be honest, me too. But one of the purpose of this Asia Music Festival is to promote the local talents that we have in Sarawak too. So yeah. Thumbs up to Hevance.Among the songs that were played during that day are Bajik, Mimpi, Belama, Aku nemu and etc.

Joners Hevance - on Guitar

Gideon Hevance the Drummer

Aldrich Hevance- the Vocalist

Bob Yusof - local artist with amazing vocal. Checkout my insta for video post.

The 3rd performer of the night is Bob Yusof. Many has questioned, why him? Why he was chosen to perform in this first Asia Music Festival? if you did not attend the event, then its loss for you. Bob was superb. 'Tidak disangkal vokal nya yang lantang itu'. He sang Pop, balada and traditional ethnic songs. he is so versatile . Tho he prefer to speak and communicate in Malay in his entire performance, I remember one of his phrase during the Press confrence ' Muzik itu tiada batasan' and in his performance he quoted 'Muzik itu tanpa sempadan', dari mana juga asal, kita muzik menyatukan kita.

The 4th Performer of the night was Soesah Tidoer from Indonesia. From the name you can surely understand the meaning or maybe for me only.lol. Soesah tidoer means Insomnia. They played mostly keroncong and dangdut music genre. One of the most remembered song was ' Salomi' which means Satu lubang rami-rami. Sounded so wrong right? lol. i know, i know. but that is the title given to that song, it was catchy song. i can still remember the beat and lyric.

Soesah Tidoer Band

 

Tritha - her voice really got soul

The 5th performer was Tritha from India. She has this amazing arrangement of music and her voice was.. ... soothing in a way. yeah. and I myself love the "Fish Market" song... It's like a mix and match of traditional India music and "metal' rock. Do you get what I mean? Oh God.. You need to be there to understand what I am trying to explain here...really... on second thought,  maybe you guys can just browse on #youtube. =)

So the next performer is from Philipino, the Bembol Rockers. listening to their performance, you will automatically think that you are back to 70s and 80s. Want to see how funky and happening their performance are? visit my instagram page here. I have recorded 'em performing and visitors who dance literally to their performance. Great night. (with my cocky and confident face). oh ya. before i forgot, Bembol Rockers performance featured Kamal Mussalam from Middle East too. 

And the last performer for the first night was V. Star from Korea. I did took pictures of them. but i rather not upload it here coz it was too fuzzy and blurred. and I accidentally deleted all pictures from my phone. Long story guys. However, I did uploaded some of the videos i took of these 4 beautiful 'talented' girls on my instagram page. Visit them ya.

oohh. When the girl with the Big Drum started to rap, the crowds goes crazy yawwwll. lol. and they also featured Kamal Musallam in their performance that night.

So end of the first day.

p/s: the crowd was so-so earlier that afternoon, but towards the night, crowd started to filled up half of the dance floor. there were tables set up near the pool and along the way  from entrance. and there were Bikers Exhibition going on too for 2 night. I would not cover that part much coz i know Joe will. visit his blog for further details on the bikers. Just so you guys know, he is the Vice President of Miri Big Bikers Club. =)

So. That's it for 1st day AsiaMF2013. the second day post will come soon.

Bembol Rockers Vocalist - Marc Liwanag

Kamal Mussalam