Performers

The popular percussion sessions for RWMF audience to participate in is on every evening. 1DRUM & friends are back with the theme – EVERYONE CAN DRUM! Facilitator, Shameer Bakhda is joined by Emcee Nipun aka MC-NC, Bhindee from Dhol Alliance, Hisha (Rudy) from White Percussion Unit and multi-instrumentalist Firlany Malik.…

TRAD.ATTACK! is an irrepressible trio – in personality, as well as in their music. Their music , as inventive and as ambitious as they can be. In a few years, they have brought Estonian music to a high, mixing archaic songs sung by their grandmothers with energetic contemporary multi layers…

In their five years, Scottish firebrancs TALISK have stacked up several major awards for their explosive energetic yet artfully woven sound, in cluding 2017’s Folk Band of the Year at the BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards and a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. Mohsen Amini, the concertino player, won…

  Tabanka is a young Cape Verdean group from Rotterdam whose music has been inspired by that of Cape Verde artists from an older generation such as Code di Dona, Bulmundo, Americo Brito and of course, Bitori. The group has a fresh and contemporary take on funana, the upbeat, energetic…

Winners of the Waterfront Music Festival 2017, Suk Binie’ are 7 musicians from Bau. They play arrangements of traditional melodies from the ethnic communities of the Bidayuh, Iban and Orang Ulu.

STAAK BISOMU come from Kampong Atas Singai in Bau, Sarawak. They are from the Bidayuh community aged between 19 to 50 years old. Their old rituals and ways are still practiced at their village. They bring us a glimpse into the some of the fascinating and almost hidden rituals of…

Siti Habibah and Apriyadi started to teach Dayak traditional dance at an elementary school in Palangka Raya.  This has grown into an intensive training academy where they now teach the younger generation this cultural art form. Supported by David Metcalf, a professional photographer from New Zealand, their dream is to…

Persian music connects with traditional Mongolian music to make an extraordinary and fascinating sound. Master singers Nasaa Nasanjargal and Naraa Naranbaatar together with virtuostic Dulcimer player Ganzorig Davaakhuu, and multi-instrumentalist Omid Bahadori will transport you into the exotic world between the Orient and Mongolian steppe, Their music comes from natural…

Led by Guru Shiromong Sangtam, an expert on indigenous construction and craftsmanship, this cultural troupe showcases the rich ancestral traditions of the Sangtam Nagas. Sangtams are one of the major Naga ethnic groups. The Naga people are an umbrella ethnic group who live in India and Myanmar. Their mountainous habitat…