Wau-Bulan - Arr. by Tracy Wong

Wau Bulan - Malaysian Folk Song, Arr. by Tracy Wong
Youth Chorus, Soloists: Ely Tuttle, Ella Jensen, Kyra Bloom, Kyla Raygor

Spectrum Choral Academy - Youth Chorus
Stephanie Charbonneau, Artistic Director
Julie Mandery, Accompanist

Spectrum Choral Academy
7th Annual Spring Concert
Saturday, May 11, 2019, 3:00 PM
Chapel Hill Church, Gig Harbor, WA
www.spectrumchorus.com

This folk song and dance originates from Malaysia. It is performed in the Dikir Barat style whereby performers sit in rows on the floor and sing while performing choreographed hand and body movements. Dikir Barat is usually performed by Malaysians as a way of preserving and cultivating the Malay community culture of song and dance. Wau Bulan describes the beauty of the Malaysian traditional kite (wau) with a rounded bottom shaped like a half moon (bulan) as it flies up high in he sky. Malaysian Translation: Wow, the three-cornered moon.