The Dangdut Cowboys, a Pittsburgh-based band made up of Pitt and CMU faculty, alumni, and graduate students, will perform music in Indonesia as part of a cultural exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. The band will perform in Indonesia’s three largest cities – Jakarta, Surabaya, and Medan – from March 8 to March 18, 2019. Performances include concerts, television broadcasts, school presentations, and other media events. Dangdut is the most popular genre of music in Indonesia, a country made up of some 17,000 islands and a population of over 260 million people. The Dangdut Cowboys cross musical borders by mixing Indonesian dangdut songs with country, blues, rock, and reggae. Formed by Andrew Weintraub in 2007, the band aims to introduce the intoxicating music and exuberant dance of dangdut to audiences everywhere.
