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Mystifying Yet Mystified
With that frame of mind, she informed her band of their inclusion in the Sarawak roster and set to work honing her already razor-sharp repertoire. With her were Anne Chambouleyron, who specializes in the derbouka; Sancho, who Cynthia playfully refers to as �the other guitar�; Malou Matute, who plays the shaker, keyboards, gongs, chimes, and kulintang, as well as provides background vocals to Cynthia�s honey-fire voice; Toni Bernardo, master of cajon and rainstick; and Victor �Loni� Ku, who ably handles the cello. All six musicians would end up playing with other delegates at the Festival.
Other festival delegates
The set-up of the three-day festival was actually very simple. Every day would bring different �workshops,� where musicians from all over the world would showcase their countries� different musical backgrounds, genres and instruments.
�It became difficult at times,� Cynthia says. �There would be workshops I�d want to attend but couldn�t because I had a workshop of my own to take care of.�
The festival�s roster read like a Who�s Who of independent world music. Ghana�s Aja Addy, world-renowned percussionist, was present, as was Anak Dayung 2, a group whose forte is Malaysian blues, under the very capable wing of the eminent Dr. Wan Zawawi. Canadian-based group Asza, a Canadian-based group that included festival coordinator Randy Raine-Reusch, performed several times during the festival, as did Ann Springford, who plays the trombone.
Other performers included the very talented Masabo Culture Company, a Vancouver-based African duo; M. Nasir, a Malaysian poet and writer widely considered his country�s equivalent to Sting; Isizuluku Siga 8, South Africans who specialize in Muskanda, a contemporary African musical style involving modern-day instruments.
Like long-lost lovers
The differences in culture proved essential focal points for discussion. Cynthia particularly remembers the instruments brought by the Masabo Culture Company.
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