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Taiwan has become a hub for music festivals, both big and small, over the past two decades. The passionate organizers – many of them foreigners – work hard to put on the best show possible despite the numerous risks and challenges.
In April of 1995 two young American expats, Wade Davis and Jimi Moe, held the first Spring Scream music festival in Kenting at the southern tip of Taiwan. It wasn’t the first festival of its kind in Taiwan, and it was attended by only around 200 people, but the musical and cultural impact created by this iconic event was enormous. It also became a springboard and template for countless other festivals to come and laid the foundation for an industry in which foreigners have played an outsized role.
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Women perform a folk dance at Culture Uma Fest a festival of Caribbean culture co-organized by the Taiwan Digital Diplomacy Association and Flvcko Events at the Maji Maji Circle Square near the MRT’s Yuanshan Station in Taipei yesterday.
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