Matswapati , Love Your Culture !

Matswapati , Love Your Culture !

Hello ! I’m Belinda! Today I’ll tell you about one of the most popular culture festival in Bandung. it was a festival that implemented for Bandung’s birthday. The name of the culture festival is Matswapati.

 Matswapati is the name of a king in sundanese traditional puppet. The real name of king Matswapati is Prabu Matswapati. He was a great king. He was very kind and thoughtful. Matswapati culture festival is held on 27^th of September 2014 at 3 senior high school field at bali street near 5 senior highschool.

It’s start at 8.00 am with traditional costumes parade. My class’s mascot wore Jaipong costumes (for girls) and Pangsi ( for boy). And other students wore samping at their waist. After that , we made our yel – yel together. We walked until Merdeka street and then back to Bali Field. There are many students who followed the parade.

After parade , we went to our booth and watch the opening ceremony. Our city mayor is came too! After the opening ceremony we watched calung and benjang performance. Calung is a traditional music instrument from west java. Benjang is a physical exercise from west java. Its like a wrestling but benjang is accompanied with traditional music.

After that , we watched Dangdut Orchestra from ITB and degung. Degung is a traditional music ansamble.after that we watched MK3 performances! MK3 is a classical music extracurricular from 3 Senior high school. They performed 3 song. I’m sorry I didn’t know the tittle of the songs L.after MK3 performances , we watched Pencak silat demonstration from elementary school students.

Finally we watched a drama from Tiloe’s Theatre. T’sT is an Extracurricular too! They always make great performances on stage. I really love it. Matswapati have traditional food festival too! The slogan is “You are What you Eat”. The food festival sell many traditional foods like Lotek , cilok , Cassava chips , and many more.

At 18.00 we watched KV3 and Barsena performances. I love barsena’s voice and …… he looks so handsome ! At the end  we sang along with Glenn Fredly !

I asked one of the committee. Her name is Felia prima Wefiani. She is a decoration committee. She said Matswapati Culture Festival  was very successful! She said that Matswapati will be the unforgettable memory in her life. She likes Glenn Fredly and Barsena performances. And Actually she took a picture with a special person /ups.

And then I asked one of my senior in my school. His name is Ilham Muzakki. He was an field team work. He said that Matswapati is very successful. He said that Matswapati is different from other Festivals. “Guest star wasn’t important , but the culture”, he said.

That’s all from me. Thank you!!