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15 participants gain experience in sape playing   

BY ELLISIA TINGASS KUCHING: A total of 15 participants joined the Sape Camp 2023 organised by Yayasan Perpaduan Sarawak (YPS), which was held at the Waterfront Kuching Amphitheatre on Thursday evening (June 22). According to YPS, the participants had the opportunity to get to know, learn and play the Sape music instrument. “Fifteen participants, aged […]

Yayasan Perpaduan Sarawak trains non-Sarawakian youths in Sape music

BY AWANG MUHAMMAD SYAHMI KUCHING: Fifteen young Yayasan Perpaduan Sarawak (YPS) Sape Ambassadors from various parts of the country were awarded certificates following a four-day training session at Sape Camp 2023. The camp aimed to foster admiration, appreciation and mastery of Sarawak’s beloved musical instrument, the Sape, among non-Sarawakian youths. During the closing and certificate […]

Onus on young to keep sape music alive

KUCHING: The sape has now become an iconic global instrument, thanks to Sarawak’s Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF). With its fame, young musicians are now building international careers playing this traditional Sarawakian instrument. William Dharmawan for instance said he has been playing the sape since he was eight years old. “Sape has been my music […]

Sape resurgence: A musical upbeat of tradition and arts

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall. —  Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ are the words of Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s play The Twelfth […]

Playing sape is music to Emmy’s ears

BY MOHD ZAHID AHMAD ZAKI KUCHING: Sape was once a mainstay in traditional rituals at longhouses in Sarawak but has over the years evolved into an instrument embraced by modern-day music. Bau native Jerremmy Mikka Luget, for instance, prides himself on being able to play the sape deftly. “I started quite late in this arena […]

Orang Ulu sape musicians eligible for MSS grants

MIRI: The Sarawak Arts Council (MSS) is providing grants worth RM30 million allocated by the State government annually to musicians and other arts and crafts practitioners in the creative and arts industry in the state.  “As such, the traditional Orang Ulu sape musical instrument musicians can also apply for the grants as the objective is […]

Second edition of Kenyah folk songs book published

KUCHING: The Dayak Cultural Foundation (DCF) announced its latest publication entitled ‘Folk Songs of Sarawak: Songs from the Kenyah Community’,which is the second edition, written by Dr Chong Pek Lin, who has been documenting the rich vocal repertoire of the Kenyah in upper Baram and Balui for over two decades. Well-known for their sape music […]

Chanteuse Alena releases Kelabit music video

KUCHING: Renowned Sarawak chanteuse Alena Murang has released a music video for her single ‘Midang Midang’ and dedicates it to the Kelabit community in Miri and Bario. “This song was handed to me by my grandaunt Tepu’ Ira. It is an old Kelabit song and a song to bring people together to share stories about culture. […]