PUTRAJAYA: The three-day World Youth Jazz Festival (WYJF), which ends today, has proven to be a hit as 29 jazz bands and 166 artistes from the local and foreign scenes enthralled fans.
Organising chairman Datuk Nik Ahmad Azmi Nik Md Daud said the festival's highlights were the performances by Amercian jazz maestro Shannon Kennedy and local talents such as Melissa Indot and Salamiah Hassan.
"The WYJF is held in conjunction with the 2014 Putrajaya Youth Festival to be held later this month.
"It is also our objective to transform Putrajaya, which is the administrative capital, into a hub for youth jazz besides cultivating a love for jazz music among young Malaysians," he said here yesterday.
Picture: by Muhd Asyraf Sawal
WYJF Youth adviser Eizaz Azhar said the festival was also a form of education for the youth on a genre of music not as popular to them."Most youth prefer conventional music such as heavy metal and rock, and consider jazz to be somewhat boring.
"We want to change that perception, and allow them to experience the beauty of jazz for themselves."
First-time visitor to the festival, Janice Cheok, 23, said the interesting line-up of performances had convinced her to catch the music festival.
"Prior to this, I did not know much about the genre and its popular performers.
Read more: Soulful music at youth jazz festival - General - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/soulful-music-at-youth-jazz-festival-1.586584?cache=03D163D03edding-pred-1.1176%2F%3FpFpentwa#ixzz30kh51ITY
0 Comments:
Post a Comment