Press Release
June 27, 2016
MIRI COUNTRY MUSIC FEST IS DEFINITELY GOING BIGGER IN
2017
After another good outing this year, Miri Country
Music Fest is heading towards being bigger next year. The festival will be held
for two days next year and this is to accommodate the request from festival
goers.
Since introducing the festival in 2014, Planet
Conventions and Events Sdn Bhd had been organizing the event for one day.
However, as the festival entered into it’s forth year, Miri Country Music Fest
will be held for two days from February 25 to 26 next year.
Left to Right : Mr Andrew Peter Law (General Manger of Parkcity Everly Hotel, Miri) , Y.B. Datuk Lee Kim Shin, Ms Leticia (Representative from Planet Conventions & Events) & Ms Angelina Bateman (Representative from Sarawak Tourism Board)
The decision was because of the overwhelming response
this year. The festival which was held on February 27 this year recorded a
total of 2,740 festival goers, an increased of 30 per cent as compared to last
year. Last year’s crowd was at 2,100.
Next year Planet Conventions and Events is targeting to attract more than 3,500
festival goers to the event.
The venue will remain at Parkcity Everly Hotel Miri,
which is also the official hotel and the main sponsor for the event.
To cater for the two days and increasing festival
goers number, the organizer will also be bringing in more international bands
to entertain the crowd. Among those already short listed include from USA,
Australia, Germany, Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam. There will also be more
local Malaysian bands taking the centre stage as well.
The festival concept also remain as in previous years,
starting with the festival bazaar and followed with music workshop before the
concert begin in the evening. On Sunday, the concert will begin earlier so that
the finale can end earlier as well. This is in consideration for the festival
goers who have to work the next day.
Planet Conventions and Events is also planning to
include more activities in the program to further enhance the festival goers’
experience at the event. This will include more stalls offering wide variety of
food and beverages, arts and crafts, apparels and souvenirs and to organize
competitions like burger eating contest, arm wrestling and many more.
There is also plan to hold a Sunday-cook-out session
on the second day of the festival, to encourage more visitors especially those
with young children to spend the afternoon at the festival.
Next year’s event will have something for everyone, be
they country music fans or anyone wanting to chill out with family and friends.
Tickets to the festival are now available online at www.miricountrymusic.com and tickets
are priced at RM80 for one day and RM150 for two days for adult. For children
between three to 12 years old, their ticket is priced at RM40 for one day and
RM70 for two days. All the tickets include one drink.
At the moment Planet Conventions and Events is
offering the Big Bang Sale and the tickets are priced at RM55 per day and RM100
for two days for adult and RM35 and RM60 respectively for a child. The Big Bang
Sale will last until September 30. After that date the ticket will be on sale
at normal price.
The forth edition of Miri Country Music Fest is
endorsed by Miri City Council and supported by Sarawak Tourism Board, Ministry
of Tourism, Culture and Arts Sarawak and Malaysia Conventions and Exhibition
Bureau (MyCEB). Rentak Sejuta is the online media partner.
For more detail on the festival, either logon to www.miricountrymusic.com, email to info@placeborneo.com or call +6 082
250400.
(A group photo of Y.B. Datuk Lee Kim Shin, Mr Andrew Peter Law, Planet Conventions & Events and Sarawak Tourism Board representatives as well as other hoteliers and MAS Wings representatives)
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