Melbourne Community Gamelan will be performing a Wayang Puppet Gamelan event at the Church of All Nations in Carlton on Saturday 23rd of Feb. For this performance Dahlang and musician Danis Sugiyanto will be visiting Melbourne from Java to orchestrate the music pieces.
Bp Danis Sugiyanto is a very experienced and highly regarded Javanese musician, who is a teacher at the prestigious Institut Seni Indonesia in Solo. He is also known as an expert teacher and performer of the Indonesian popular music genre of keroncong, which is currently undergoing a revival in Indonesia.
Bp Danis, with Irene Richie, a MCG member, will visit the Global Village to talk about gamelan and keroncong, and illustrate this with some musical examples.