Bashir (standing seventh right) and Mahathir (standing sixth left) with the winners of the Borneo Gambus competition.
LABUAN: Irama Bahtera from Brunei captured the first place in the Borneo Gambus competition during the second night of the Borneo Arts Festival (BAF) 2014 held at Dataran Labuan on Saturday night.
The second place was won by Waris of Labuan while in third place was Awal from Sabah.
Irama Bhatera received a cash prize of RM5,000, while Waris got RM3,000 and Awal RM1,000.
Six gambus groups from Labuan, Sabah and Brunei competed during the night and ‘The Best Gambus Player’ award went to Bruneian Saiful Rizal.
Present to present the prizes was a member of the Labuan Corporation (LC) advisory council, Datuk Bashir Alias, and the director of LC Tourism, Culture and Arts Department, Mahathir Abdul Hamid.
Several other performances were held during the second day of BAF 2014 such as a photography contest, face and shoe painting and bamboo music performance.