More than just good music at Miri Country Music fest

very interesting.... Country music lovers from the region are in Miri for the Miri country music fest. Event organising director Gracie Geikie on the second from left showing a Miri brochure to artistes and guests. Stephen pic

MIRI: Music, songs and dances have become major tourism draw for Sarawak, with locally-organised musical festivals garnering rapidly-increasing interest from abroad and in the process generating much international publicity for this Land of the Hornbills.

Foreigners pay good money to fly to Sarawak just to partake in these celebration of sounds and sights, and they generate enormous spin-offs way beyond the tourism sectors.