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Metal band Helloween to rock Kutai Kertanegara for free

After being greeted with enthusiastic applause from 25,000 members of the audience at last year’s concert of rock legend Sepultura in Tenggarong, Kutai Kertanegara,now the Kukar Rock Fest 2013 committee has invited another metal giant,the Helloween

Nurni Sulaiman (The Jakarta Post)
Kutai kartanegara
Sat, June 15, 2013

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fter being greeted with enthusiastic applause from 25,000 members of theaudience at last year'€™s concert of rock legend Sepultura in Tenggarong, KutaiKertanegara,now the Kukar Rock Fest 2013 committee has invited another metal giant,the Helloween.

The Hamburg-based metal band is slated to perform for free at Panahan Square in the Aji Imbut sports complex on Sunday, June 16.

Promoter Akhmad Akbar Haka Saputra said members of Helloween had been keen to play before the Tenggarong public because they had heard about the success of Sepultura at last year'€™s concert.

'€œBesides, the band is a living legend in the rock music industry. Millions of copies of their albums have been sold worldwide,'€ he said.

Helloween, which reached its peak in the 1980s to early 1990s, is famous for its hit songs like '€œDr. Stein'€, '€œFuture World'€, '€œWindmill'€ and '€œForever and One'€.

Kutai Kertanegara Regent Rita Widyasari said the concert was part of the administration'€™s strategy to promote local tourism internationally.  Rita also rest assured that no state funds would be used to finance the concert.

'€œWe are fully relying on the sponsoring companies to finance the whole event,'€ she said.

The country'€™s leading cigarette company, Djarum, and the Indonesian Helloween fan club are among the main sponsors of the concert. Rita said the Kukar Rock Fest was an event that had been organized to welcome Erau International Folklore 2013 from June 30 to July 7.(dic)

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