Rhythms of Kinabalu
Rhythms of Kinabalu adalah Mt.Kinabalu International Climbathon di Taman Kinabalu, Kundasang, anjuran bersama Kementerian Penerangan Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Malasysia (KPKK) dan Kementerian Pelancongan Malaysia (KPL) dengan kerjasama Kerajaan Negeri Sabah, serta dikendali oleh Jabatan Kebudayaan dan Kesenian Negara Sabah, agensi di bawah KPKK.
Program ini adalah salah satu daripada 20 program kerjasama yang telah dirancang dan diluluskan oleh KPKK & KPL bagi tempoh tahun-tahun 2011-2013. Ianya adalah landasan untuk menjadikan Sabah sebagai salah satu pusat penyemarakan seni muzik di Malaysia. Dengan wujudnya program ini pengiat seni muzik di pilihan ruang untuk berkarya bagi memperlihatkan keperlbagaian genre muzik fusion etnik yang unik dan bermutu. Usaha ini juga dilihat sebagai meningkatkan apresiasi seni muzik di Malaysia.
Antara tujuan utama program ini adalah untuk menyemarakkan aktiviti seni budaya setempat, memperkenal seni dan budaya masyarakat Malaysia sebagai produk pelancongan yang mampu member impak besar kepada ekonomi Negara, serta mempertingkatkan aktiviti pelancongan Negara.
Bagi tahun 2011, tema Muzik & Alam menjadi pilihan dengan persembahan pentas dalam 3 segmen, menggabungkan alat muzik berasaskan bamboo dan logam. Ketiga-tiga segmen tersebut ialah Ritma Bambu, Rentak Logam dan Suara Alam. Artis-artis terkenal tanahair, kumpulan muzik etnik dan kumpulan tari mewarnai persembahan pentas yang diserikan lagi dengan lagu tema Ryythms of Kinabalu.
Rhythms of Kinabalu coincides with Mt. Kinabalu Climbathon at Kinabalu Park, Kundasang, and jointly organised by the Ministry of Information Communication and Culture Malaysia (MICC) and the Ministry of Tourism (MOTOUR), managed by the Sabah National Department For Culture and Arts, an agency under MICC.
This programme is one of the 20 cooperation programmes planned & agreed upon by MICC and MOTOUR for the period beginning 2011 to 2013. It is a platform to transform Sabah as one of the centres for music hotspots in Malaysia. With its establishment local music activities will now have alternative space to showcase the various unique & quality music genre of ethnic fusion. Such move is also seen as to improve music appreciation in Malaysia.
The main objectives are to manifest local cultural and arts activities, to introduce Malaysian culture and arts as tourism product that can give a great impact to the country’s economy, as well as to upgrade the country’s tourism activities.
This year, the theme Music & Nature has been chosen to showcase a three-segment stage performance of the combination of bamboo and metal musical instruments. The segments are The Rhythm of Bamboo, The Beat of Metal, and The Voice of Nature. Malaysia’s popular artistes, ethnic music groups and dance troupes add colours to the stage performance, highlighted by Rhythms of Kinabalu theme song.
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