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Tenun Fashion Week Showcasing Handwoven Textiles. Music Press Asia
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Tenun Fashion Week Starts Tonight

The future of handwoven textiles and its tradition is in your hands. In a bid to preserve Southeast Asia’s technical prowess of handweaves, TENUN presents its very first Fashion Week set to take place from 15-17 October 2021. Exquisite fabrics are no longer the enjoyment of royal courts. For the next three days, Maybank Foundation is hosting Tenun Fashion Week. And partners with ASEAN’s Handicraft Promotion and Development Association (AHPADA) and Tanoti, a Malaysian accredited social enterprise dedicated towards heritage craft preservation. The event introduces the weaver community profiles and…

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How Tea Rhymes With GuZheng. Music Press Asia
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How Tea Rhymes with Guzheng

Tea is where we’d like to begin. If tea isn’t a reason to bring people together, then what does? While our editorial editors may like a gau (thick) cup of tea just to start agreeing with each other, it is its form and historical context that unite our misgivings. However, there is one question that continues to perplex many of…

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Gunung Jazz Returns to Mount Bromo 2021. Music Press Asia
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Jazz Gunung 2021 Returns to Mount Bromo Indonesia

Indonesian annual and ethnic jazz festival “Jazz Gunung” finally made a comeback after being held virtually in 2020 due to the spike of COVID-19 cases. Under a strict health protocol, the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy welcomed a total of 300 concertgoers, or only 25% capacity of the festival Held at the Jiwa Jawa Resorts Amphitheater, Mount Bromo,…

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World Music Festival 2021 6th Edition [Taiwan]

If you’ve been bottled up by the Covid-19 lockdowns and restriction in movement since March 2020, then you’ll want to get out for some fresh air. Perhaps even a little envious of Taipei city dwellers, we have settled with the fact that we aren’t that lucky this season. Having had the ultimate freedom to travel all around Southeast Asia, Taiwan…

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Chinese Media Group celebrates mid-autumn festival gala in Sichuan. Music Press Asia
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Chinese Media Group Broadcast Grand Mid-Autumn Festival Gala

Distributed for broadcast by CCTV+ Video News Agency, the grand Mid-Autumn Festival Gala was broadcast on Tuesday night (21st September) at 8:00 p.m. (Beijing local time). The audiovisual feast, broadcast overseas for the very first time, was held at Xingyue Lake Wetland Park in Xichang – the capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The location…

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Lele Marchitelli releases OST of Mare of Easttown film. Music Press Asia
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Lele Marchitelli Composed Original Music Soundtrack of Mare of Easttown

Mare of Easttown is an American crime drama limited series created by Brad Ingelsby for HBO. Directed by Craig Zobel and written by Brad Ingelsby, the series premiered on April 18, 2021, and concluded on May 30, 2021, consisting of seven episodes. It stars Kate Winslet as the title character, a detective investigating a murder in a small town near…

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Joanna Lumley Silk Road Documentary Series. Music Press Asia
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Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventures

Released in 2018, the journey of Joanna Lumley as she embarks on a spectacular exploration into the heart of the Silk Road in this four-part series. The Silk Road was one of the most transformative super-highways in human history. In Joanna Lumley’s grandest and most challenging journey is a breath-taking odyssey from Venice to the Chinese border along the veins…

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BB King the brand lives on at 96. Music Press Asia
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B.B. King The Brand Lives On At 96

The B.B. King Music Company, owner of all rights to B.B. King likeness and related trademarks and copyright on behalf of the King Family Trust has recently announced a revitalized partnership with American guitar brand, Gibson. An initiative with the aim of preserving the life legacy of B.B. King, this partnership was announcement rather timely following the 96th birthday anniversary…

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'Gitara', a film by anthropologist Stefan Williamson Fa will be screened at Middle East & Central Asia music forum. Music Press Asia
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Middle East & Central Asia Music Forum

The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinary, the issues discussed attracts a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researches in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Today, its…

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Music & Culture to play a big role on the Silk Road. Music Press Asia
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Culture & Music To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road

While many more songwriters believe that there may be commercial sense to how things are being run in the digitalized world, the purpose of music making remains best performed in its cultural sense, I mean LIVE. Why? To transcend creative perspective and understanding of people from the specific communities and tribes to the world. Tourism wouldn’t come to a halt…

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