Matasora World Music Festival Attracts Tourists
Jakarta. The Matasora World Music Festival featured Indonesian and foreign artists conveying multicultural values through music on July 22-23 at the Kereta Api Indonesia complex in Bandung, West Java.
"Matasora has the spirit to promote West Java to become the strength of the national culture and to improve the province's tourism sector," Esthy Reko Astuti of the Tourism Ministry's department of tourism development said after the event.
The main performance was a collaboration of Gamelan Shockbreaker with Norway's Patrick Shaw Iversen and India's Shri Sriram.
Accompanying the event were films about music, including "Mengejar Dangdut," "Sengatan Si Bengal," "Jejak Musik Harry Roesli" and "Muslim Headbangers."
The festival's artistic director, Ismet Ruhimat, said the event is going to be held annually.
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