Jumpa pers ASEAN Jazz Festival 2009 yang berlangsung pada hari Kamis 9 Juli 2009 bertempat di ruang rapat Direktorat Jendral Pemasaran lantai 17 Gedung Departemen Kebudayaan Dan Pariwisata Republik Indonesia.

Para musisi yang hadir dalam jumpa pers tersebut antara lain: Imelda Rosalin, Gerald “Sketsa”, Masmo “Notturno”, Rindra “Alien Loves Earth” bersama bpk. Sapta Nirwandar – Direktur Jenderal Pemasaran Departemen Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Republik Indonesia , bpk.  Robert Iwan Loriaux – Kepala Dinas Pariwisata Provinsi Kepulauan Riau, bpk. Raja Muchsin -  Kepala Dinas Pariwisata Pemerintah Kota Batam serta bpk. Indra S SAID dari PT.Taria selaku event organiser yang ditunjuk sebagai pelaksana penyelenggaraan.

Hal ini dilatar belakangi oleh suksesnya penyelenggaraan ASEAN Jazz Festival 2008 tahun lalu, serta program pemerintah dalam pendukung suksesnya program Visit Indonesia 2009, dan meneruskan serta menguatkan tradisi bahwa Indonesia sebagai pelopor, menciptakan kegiatan Festival Musik Jazz yang melibatkan musisi-musisi muda Jazz berbakat dari negara-negara ASEAN.

Following the success of last year ASEAN Jazz Festival, Ministry of Culture and Tourism Republic of Indonesia, appointed PT Taria as event organizer for this ASEAN Jazz Festival 2009 in purpose to support Visit Indonesian Year 2009 theme. This Festival is also arranged by the local government as a special entertainment to local people of the Batam Island.

This years edition of ASEAN Jazzfestival will be held on August 7th and 8th in Costarina, Batam, Kepulauan Riau. Coastarina-Batam is a strategic coast entertainment venue was developed as tourism attractions in Batam Island. This location could be reached within 1 hour by ferry from Singapore ,so the venue is perfect for an International scale festival which will be attracted many foreign tourist and could be an event to invite many young talented artist and musicians in this region, especially in South East Asia , as far as we know that Batam is one of main foreign tourism gateway entrance to Indonesia, after Jakarta and Bali

The event will forward and strengthen the tradition of Indonesia as a pioneer, creating the Jazz Festival activities involving musicians-Jazz talented young musicians from the state ASEAN countries.

The line-up is:

AUGUST 7th

Mangrove
Lewis Pragasam Trio (Malaysia)
Sketsa
Aya Yuson Quartet (Phillipines)
Devian
Imelda Rosalin Trio feat. Arina Mocca
Alien Loves Earth

AUGUST 8th

Chepy ‘n Friends
RAN
Tohpati Quartet
The Intersect 3+1 (Thailand)
Tze (SIngapore)
Notturno
Balm Trio

sumber :  http://www.aseanjazzfestival.com/

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