Rich Music Resonates From Mount Santubong

By Julia Tan

September 2016 FEATURE
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The Rainforest World Music Festival last month took audiences – and this writer – to new heights of musical ecstasy.Lightning provides firework in the sky: flash, bang. The Bornean rain whips at the audience, but they are not deterred. Instead, the storm appears to invigorate them as they dance to the Cretan lyra, with a backdrop of towering trees that provide no shelter from the rain. “Our first song is a prayer for the rain to stop,” announces Stelios Petrakis...

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Julia Tan

is a former editor of Penang Monthly. She remembers her time with the magazine with great fondness.

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