MIJF

More jazz varieties were among the strategies made by Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) for 2008 Miri International Jazz Festival (MIJF) held from the 9th to 10th of May. MIJF organising chairman Michael Lu says the bands from Australia, Philippines, Korea, Cuba, Japan, Holland, United States, France, United Kingdom and Canada to perform at the festival to be staged at the ParkCity Everly Hotel's Pavilion, Miri. He said the STB do not know how many bands would be performing but it would announce those confirmation their participation. Adds that STB also planned to have a marching jazz band from Holland to make a moving performance around the venue of the festival while, several local jazz bands also shown their interests to join in. For 2007, STB collected about four-thousand 960 tickets were sold and for this year, they had prepared about six-thousand **to be updated** Jazz lovers can made available online starting today at www.TicketCharge.com.my which offered 60-ringgit per night for adult, and 30-ringgit per child aged between three and 12 years old. Since 2006 MIJF was organised annually enjoying among jazz lovers from around the world, on last May of this year, it generated over five-million ringgit worth of tourism revenue and sales of tickets alone had reached 180-thousand ringgit.