Bali to host world festival

Bali to host world festival

JAKARTA (JP): Bali will host a world music festival from Dec.
23 through Jan. 3, 2000, to mark the turn of the century.

The "Sacred Rhythm" World Percussion Music Festival, supported
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (Unesco), is expected to lure thousands of foreign
tourists to Bali, according to Serano Sianturi, of the Titian
Budaya Foundation, the organizing committee of the festival.

The festival, he said, will be held in conjunction with the
United Nations program for the year 2000, which is being called
the International Year of Culture and Peace, Antara reported.

He said that about 60 percussionists from 32 countries, among
others the U.S., some African countries, Germany, Brazil, Turkey,
Japan and Australia, had confirmed their participation in the
upcoming festival.