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Had a long Gawai Dayak Festival from 31 may to the 3 June. I was in my old village and Karaoke was the main form of entertainment.

Here are some pictures


The Sound man my nephew



A duet

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

More picture

the drumer



the lead ladies


the shy singer singing from his chair

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

A section of the crowd attacking the food



Nice hat

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Thanks for the pics!

Dang, you got some pretty gals over there, you lucky dog! Looks like you guys know how to party!

Jian, is there anything you need karaoke-wise I can ship you that would help?, you know, anything you can't find there that would add to your show.

Let me know!

Now that looks like fun - great pics

Thank you for sharing  :hug:

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The Gawai festival in my village is an open celebration. The whole village and a lot of vistors joint in. Food and drinks is everywhere. Infact this is the only time I do serious drinking.

More picture of the ladies;

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Another closer look at the KJ on a Yamaha MG16, and Behringer power amp Ep2500
Just enough to power to drive a pair of SP2 . A second amp, power another pair of Behringer speakers and the stage monitors was driven by a power mixer which can be seen in the first pic. We do not have any compressor and the Kj basically ride the fader.
There was barely enough power but the kind of music played did not required the sound to be that loud. This time we did not blow the SP2; strictly no red light.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Fascinating!  Good pictures.  What is the purpose of the Gawai Dayak Festival?

When it come to party time we do it seriously; everbody must get drunk. The drink are not served on the table but direct to the mouth, by those ladies.

And thanks for the offer, I will PM you .

Bab , Thanks, you should be here to see the fun.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

It marked the end of the agriculture year, done after the harvesting season is over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawai_Dayak
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1952/gawai.htm

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Jian,  Looks like you had a lot of fun...Where are the pics of you???

What language is spoken???What language do you sing???

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Will sing or fish for food!!I'm not quite right!!

Now that you mention it I forgot to take the picture of myself.
The MC speaks in Bidayuh mostly, and the then translate the important parts for the vistor in Malay and English. Songs sang in this kind of fuction are mostly those that can be danced to. Songs are mostly local and some English. We have an Elvis singing some of his fast rock and roll.


The MC seen here is a local radio DJ

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Dang !   I forgot to send a card this year  :shock:

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Looks like they could have used some SWING and BLUES songs for karaoke!! Was this all in local language discs or were there english ones and what kind songs were they mostly singing??

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"You know that I sing the Blues and I do not suffer fools. When I'm on that silver mic, it's gonna cut ya, just like a knife"-The SWINGCAT

OMG!....I want the gal on the left in the last pic!

Lord help me!, I've fallen down and can't get up!

Most of the songs sang are of local languages; Bidayuh, Iban, and Malay. There are some BLUES numbers done in Bidayuh and lots of rock n' roll kind of music. One in ten songs sang are English, mostly late 60s and early 70s rock.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

You have more of that kind of girls here Keith; just come over here the next Gawai and make sure you have an extra plane ticket back cos your lady need one.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

You and Keith should be around. The band need good keyboard player. The good thing about the way this was organised is that if the Band can play the song we turn to karaoke. Some of the singers cannot sing with the band and prefer using the karaoke while some prefer singing with the band.

There is this man who can't read or speak English but sing the Bee Gees Don't forget to Remember' and he sings with the band.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Nice pictures.    OK    how can everyone send a file with 500 pictures in it and I can't send half of a half of a page without getting a warning that I overloaded the size limits for the attachment?      :whistle:

Those photos are not sent to this site but are from a link. So what you see is in fact from photobucket website. Upload the photos to your account at photobucket.com and link it to anywhere you like. Its free.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott