A Little Island That Danced
By Julia Tan
May 2013 FEATURE
Bringing world music to Penang is one thing, but getting the different musicians from three continents to jam together is quite a bonus. It reflects the diversity of the crowd itself. The Penang World Music Festival is here to stay.Oratnitza's Horhe on the didgeridoo.Music defines us. It gives us an identity, a culture. Flutes carved from animal bone, stone drums, goat-skin string instruments – all these have been unearthed in ancient civilisations all over the world, and in some form...
Julia Tan
went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.
