So many photos I wanted to post for World Indigeno...

So many photos I wanted to post for World Indigenous Day today but I chose these, cause I miss sharing the stage and the music. The love we have for sape’ is beyond the music, it’s the stories, the fellowship, the art, the language, the rivers and rainforests. How a minority identity can survive and thrive through an instrument.

If I could ask you to support cultural arts where you can, cause those who practice it really have a great love and a mission to share something more than the product with you, and against all odds will strive to achieve that even if the road is not a straight one.
I truly believe there’s so much we can learn about ourselves and the world through indigenous arts.

Photos ~ L to R Salomon Gau, Luyoh, me, Jimpau Balan, Mathew Ngau. All of the uncles are sape’ masters, & uncle Luyoh is one of the very few nose flute musicians. It was an absolute honour to be invited to perform with them in 2017.
Second photo of my lifelong sape’ teacher, uncle Mathew.
Third photo of my cousins & I preparing to perform at Rainforest World Music Festival around 2004 as the first girls to perform sape’

#WorldIndigenousDay #indigenous #musician #indigena #native #dayak #sarawak #sape #borneo

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