BANYUWANGI - The angklung caruk festival at the student level in Gesibu Blambangan was lively. Appearance of the participants who passed in the final round, managed to amaze thousands of spectators who packed the Gesibu Blambangan stands last Saturday night (25/2).
Since Saturday afternoon, visitors have started to crowd around Gesibu Blambangan where the student angklung caruk festival takes place. Spectators who came from various villages and sub-districts in Banyuwangi deliberately came just to witness the students' skills in playing these traditional musical instruments..
The festival seemed to cure the longing of the people of Banyuwangi who had not seen an angklung caruk performance for a long time. The event starts at 19.30 It was immediately filled with thousands of people who were sitting neatly in the Gesibu stands.
Even, when the event starts, The upper stands of Gesibu were unable to accommodate the number of spectators. inevitably, Spectators watching the festival must be willing to stand. Six groups of Caruk elementary school students (meet) first. To be fair, for its appearance a lottery system is used. Namely, two groups whose numbers are called immediately compete with each other to play traditional musical instruments on stage.
Not a little, The audience said they were proud and surprised by the elementary school participants' ability to play these traditional musical instruments. The skills of elementary school age students are not much different from those of professional gamelan musicians. Interesting, In this festival the clowns and sinden also showed their skills in dancing and vocals. Occasionally the appearance of the clowns also invites laughter from the audience.
“This is the first time there is a caruk pela jar angklung festival. If possible, it will continue to be held every year,said Juwono, 50, one of the spectators from Singojuruh. According to Juwono, The festival will be able to foster children's love of playing traditional musical instruments.
As that love grows, Schools in each education provider are also required to be able to accommodate students' talents and interests in playing traditional musical instruments. Especially, In the midst of the era of globalization, there are many types of foreign music that will influence children's love of music.
“If there is a festival, Student children will be enthusiastic about learning traditional music,” he added. The audience started cheering when the student groups competed with each other to guess the song on the angklung instrument (lojian). If the other group cannot guess how to continue playing the angklung instrument, then the referee declared the loss.
After going through the process of presenting the appearance, The committee declared the six best finalists. The first best presenting elementary school group was won by UPTD Srono District followed by a group from UPTD Rogojampi District in second place. Followed by UPTD Cluring District as the third best presenter.
Banyuwangi District UPTD was ranked as the fourth best presenter. UPTD Gambiran District and UPTD Giri District ranked fifth and sixth best presenters respectively. For junior high school participant groups, squad from SMPN 1 Banyuwangi was able to attract the jury and was declared the first best presenter with scores 628.
Followed by SMPN 2 Srono is the second best in terms of value 611. While in third position, achieved by SMPN 1 Purwoharjo and SMPN 1 Glagah was the fourth best presenter. The special award for the best angklung drummer for the elementary school standings was given to the Cluring District Education UPTD.
The best Saron drummer was won by the Gambiran District Education UPTD and the best violinist was won by the Giri District UPTD. Temporary, UPTD Rogojampi District won the best drummer. The best clowns and sinden were bought by the Srono District UPTD.
Special awards for the best angklung and sinden musicians in the junior high school standings, achieved by students from SMPN 1 Banyuwangi, The best saron musicians went to junior high school students 1 Glagah, The best kicker was achieved by a junior high school student 2 Srono, and junior high school students 1 Purwoharjo succeeded in- won the achievement as the best clown at junior high school level.
“We thank all parties who took part in making this event a success. Hopefully next year can be even better,” concluded the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Hassan Basri. (radar)
