Alena shares favourite painting through storytelling
BY AWANG MUHAMMAAD SYAHMI & NEVILLE TIMOTHY SANDERS KUCHING: Famous Sarawak Sape songstress and painter Alena Murang has shared her favourite painting through storytelling on her exhibition “Colour of Highlands”. The ‘Most Precious’ is one of her favourite paintings where it depicts an aunty facing the other side and wearing the ‘peta’ (Kelabit headgear). Alena […]
Alena Murang’s solo art show tomorrow
KUCHING: Award‐winning sape songstress, Alena Murang is putting the finishing touches on her first art show, entitled, ‘Colours of the Highlands’ at Hoan Gallery, La Promenade Mall, here. At a press conference here yesterday, Alena described the exhibition which would open this Saturday (Mac 18) as a joyous reclamation of Kelabit heritage through memory. More […]
Alena’s Colours of the Highlands art exhibition
KUCHING: Sape songstress Alena Murang will launch her first solo art exhibition entitled “Colours of the Highlands”, at La Promenade Mall here from March 18 to April 30. The solo show will include almost 50 amazing never-seen-before pieces — all by Alena — at Hoan Gallery on level three of the mall, starting from 7 […]
The Malaysia Day 2022 celebration highlights traditional music of Sarawak
MELAKA: The Malaysia Day 2022 celebration held at the Independence Declaration Memorial Square in Banda Hilir here, also raised Sarawak’s traditional music to a higher level. The ‘Land of the Hornbills’ singer and sape (a traditional lute) player, Alena Murang, 33, said the sape music presentation at the celebration was her best staging to spread […]
Music video inspired by Mother Earth
Sape songstress Alena Murang’s new music video “Put Burui” was released on August 9 in conjunction with the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Nature in Fashion The video, which was impressively produced by her team, is one of her success stories. The entire video, from the music to the dancing and costumes, is […]
Nervous Alena all set for stage performance
By Neville Timothy Sanders and Annabell Naja Tommy KUCHING: Accomplished Kelabit singer-songwriter, Alena Murang, and her band of sape players are having butterflies in their stomach thinking about going up on stage. It’s been a while now – two years in fact, no thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic – since they have performed before a […]
Gawai: Festive music video collaboration
KUCHING: There is certainly much to celebrate especially during the harvest festival of Gawai Dayak in the state on this June 1. This year, in continuing to be a part of this rich tradition, Maxis is proud to collaborate with a local artiste to produce a festive music video that brings to life a unique […]
Alena Murang, Sabah’s Bamboo Woods to perform at RWMF
KUCHING: Multi-talented Sarawakian musician Alena Murang and famous Sabah group Bamboo Woods will perform live at the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF). Making her return to the RWMF stage following the release of her second album “Sky Songs” in 2021, Alena will be joined by Sara Heng on guzheng, Simmy on keyboard and tin whistle, […]
Sape musician Alena, NGO collaborate to raise awareness on cancer
BY JACINTHA JOLENE KUCHING: Professional sape musician, singer and songwriter, Alena Murang (pic), to release a new music video titled “Many Tomorrows’ ‘ for this year’s World Cancer Day, which falls on Feb 3. The theme for World Cancer Day for three consecutive years (2022-2024) is “Close The Care Gap”. The Union for International Cancer […]
Alena to represent Malaysia at Dubai festival
KUCHING: Sarawak’s very first professional female Sape musician and artist, Alena Murang, will represent Malaysia at ‘Te Aratini: Festival of Indigenous and Tribal People’ at the Dubai Expo 2020 on Nov 17 to Nov 19. According to a press statement, Alena will be performing numbers from her album ‘Sky Songs And Kelabit and Kenyah folk […]
