Get away from the winter cold with Joey Ayala and Ismet Ruchimat (of SambaSunda)...

This coming winter, February 2 through 5, 2006, "The Power of Music" workshop series is bringing world-renowned musicians, dancers and instrument makers from Indonesia and the Philippines to teach and share their performance skills on the Garden Island of Kauai. Workshop artists were chosen for their interest in blending the old and the new: each one possesses a deep knowledge and reverence for traditional forms of expression, along with a keen interest in innovation.

Workshop participants will have the opportunity to interact, study and perform with artists including singer/songwriter Joey Ayala from the Philippines, Sundanese gamelan and kacapi maestro Ismet Ruchimat, founder of the fusion group "Sambasunda", and Ening Rumbini and Ati Sumiati, performers who specialize in Sundanese modern dance and martial arts. They will be joined by Lei Ouyang Bryant and Andrew Weintraub, musicians and university teachers of Asian culture who have done extensive field work in ethnomusicology.

For more information, go to: http://www.power-of-music.org/