The Rupununi Music and Arts Festival kicked off yesterday and will run until tomorrow with the small savannah village of Annai hosting several international performers, including the American alternative rock band Filligar.
“Today, in the continuing effort to build cultural bridges between our two great countries, I am delighted to be here to introduce a great band named Filligar,” US Ambassador Brent Hardt said at the US Embassy on Thursday.
The ambassador called the embassy’s involvement in the Rupununi Music Festival a furtherance of cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, he expressed that the band had been selected by the US State Department as cultural ambassadors,
