Akar Umbi meets Shooglenifty @ RWMF 1999
Channel: Antares Maitreya
Date: 2020-09-09

Afternoon workshop at Sarawak's Rainforest World Music Festival (1999 edition) where AKAR UMBI - an Orang Asli (indigenous Malaysian) fusion band - jams with SHOOGLENIFTY - an indestructible psychedelic Celtic dance band. Raw unedited footage courtesy of Geoff Millichamp (whose toddler Tyrone features prominently, along with Rhonwyn, daughter of Akar Umbi percussionist John J. Hagedorn).

In loving memory of the late great "diva of the rainforest" Minah Angong (14 September 1930 ~ 21 September 1999). Read more about her here: http://www.magickriver.org/2014/09/mak-minah-uncrowned-queen-of-temuan.html ... and of Angus R. Grant (14 February 1967 ~ 9 October 2016), a wizard on the fiddle & founding member of Shooglenifty.  Here's a rollicking tribute to dear sweet Angus: https://celticlifeintl.com/angus-r-grant/