This year's Rainforest World Music Festival to showcase 60 performers in hybrid event

Sarawak Tourism Board chief executive Sharzede Salleh Askor (right) and Place Borneo director Gracie Geikie looking at posters of the Rainforest World Music Festival. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / The Star

KUCHING: Some 60 international and local performers will take the stage - either physically or digitally - in the upcoming Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF), which will be held as a hybrid event for the first time.

Gracie Geikie, the director of co-event organiser Place Borneo, said 18 to 20 bands will perform live at the festival from June 17-19 at the Sarawak Cultural Village.