Greetings.

5 months and counting! Pleased to let you know that we are busy working to put things in place and on schedule!. Hopefully by the end of the month our group line up will be up in this home page. Going though the more than 400 applications from world music groups world-wide has been an arduous task for our selection committee and they have been working extra hard to get things moving ever since.

We are also pleased to inform everyone that we will have a bigger space in and around the festival's stage site. The bigger stage area will "ease pressure" to the present well-used and worked-out space and platform but rest be assured that the stage concept will remain the same with lush green rainforest backdrop! We also look forward to have terrace seats this time that could easily accommodate more than 600 people.

With bigger space for our audience, we hope to give better comfort for the evening crowd to move, groove and mingle around. We can expect better crowd and security management thus giving assurance that we will not compromise with comfort and security of our audience which will continue to be our utmost concern.

Preparation for the side events, the Rainforest World Craft Bazaar and the World Arts Forum have been progressing well and will certainly be a hit among festival audience. We will keep everyone in formed of any latest development.

Our publicity machinery will be on gear soon and we will be putting out festival's press releases in our local and regional newspapers and will also be made available for our readers outside Sarawak on our website too.

Meantime, festival's tickets are available on line at ticketcharge.com! Please note that the 3 day passes are only available online! Book your tickets early and watch out for our special promotion!

Best regards

BEN JIMBAU
CHAIRMAN