Meet the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) organising team from the Sarawak Tourism Board at Stand 2.93 this WOMEX 2019. This event of just 300 attendees in 1998, is now an internationally recognised World Music Festival recording 23,650 attendees.
The RWMF booth will also be hosting a gathering on 25th October (Friday) at 4:00pm, where visitors to the booth can have a taste of food from the local Sarawak communities.
The award-winning Festival is an annual 3-day World Music extravaganza not to be missed, featuring mini sessions, cultural and crafts displays, wellness, food as well as the night concerts at various stages. The music never ends!
This year featured the 22nd edition of the RWMF, attracting crowds from around the world to its culturally immersive and evergreen jungle-village festival venue. Located in Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo, the RWMF takes place where you can meet diverse ethnic groups with colourful cultures and music and enjoy the natural wonders such as the world’s largest cave in Mulu National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The RWMF won the Golden City Gate five-star Award for International Tourism Film and Multimedia category at ITB Berlin, Germany in March this year, and was also recognised as number 8 in the “Global Top 10” by the Transglobal World Music Charts (TWMC) Festival Awards, the Asia Pacific Excellence Awards for Film & Video Category, and the Special Tourism Gold Award – Certificate of Excellence by Malaysia Tourism Council in 2018.
article posted by:Anderson Harry William, Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak