My memorable event at Java Jazz Festival

Java Jazz Festival (JJF) is the biggest jazz music event held every year. This event was held on March 2^nd-4^th, 2012 by Java Festival Production (JFP). JJF this year was the best show among the other years, because they brought Stevie Wonder, Dave Koz, D’sound, Mamas Gun, and many more.

At Java Jazz Festival this year, I would be one of the volunteers to help monitoring some of the artists in the interview room. I was so excited because I could meet the artists who would be interviewed by media. There were four interview sessions in the Interview room. I would  be in charge to coordinate the interviewing session on the set 3.

The first day of Java Jazz Festival 2012, my boss gave me the list of the interview sessions. I had a schedule to arrange the interview of D’sound. D’sound is an International group band from Norway. So my duty was to call the media. 2 hours before the interview, I had to call the media to stand by 30 minutes before the interview sessions. There were two types of media; TV/Radio media and online/magazine media. Sometimes it was hard to handle the media, because they demanded a lot of things. The hardest media to handle was Berita Satu, I really hated them. When the interview sessions begun, the first media who came to the interview room would get the first interview session. Day 1 finally done, I didn’t have any issues in handling the media at D’sound’s interview session. And the best part was I got a chance to take a picture with them, yeay lucky me. After my duty was done, I watched D’sound, Raissa, and Depapepe performances.

On the second day of Java Jazz Festival 2012, I came earlier to JIEXPO. I decided to take a look around JIEXPO. There were a lot of booths there so I took a picture myself at Rolling Stone and wall of fame booth. After I finished taking some pictures, I came to the interview room and as usual my boss gave me the list of the interview sessions. And this time I was really surprised and excited. I got a schedule to arrange the interview for Mamas Gun. I knew a few songs of them so I was really excited. There were 10 media scheduled to interview Mamas Gun on that day, so I called media crews and all of them were answering the phone and they told me that they were ready to stand by 30 minutes before the interview sessions. The time finally came for the interview session, all the media were already here. I just couldn’t imagine how hectic the situation was, because at the same time there were three interview sessions in the same interview room. So here the Mamas Gun came, they looked so COOL and so British. Finally, one by one the media from the TV, radio, and magazine finished interviewing Mamas Gun. However, unfortunately I couldn’t  take a picture of them with me, because my boss was there. I was so upset and disappointed, but what else I could do.

On the third day of Java Jazz Festival 2012, I thought there would be no more interview sessions, but I was wrong. In fact, I got a schedule to coordinate the interview sessions for Mayer Hawthrone and Kotak. There were two interview sessions in one day, so I had to work hard on this final day. I came to JIEXPO at 2 o’clock and had to wait until 4 o’clock to call all the media. As I was waiting in the interview room with two of my friends, suddenly there was someone opening the door and it was my favorite band; Mamas Gun. They came in to the room and said, “Hi” to me, and I was so excited, I was screaming like a crazy girl. They told me that they wanted to use this room to have rehearsal before performing. And then they played acoustically their famous song called “Pots of Gold”. When they had done with their rehearsal, eventually I got a chance to take a picture with them. Yeayyyy I was so happy. And back to work, after Mamas Gun left I had to call the media to interview the Mayer Hawthrone and Kotak. After the interview sessions, suddenly my boyfriend showed up and then we watched all of the artist performances.

From all of the events that I’ve volunteered so far, Java Jazz Festival 2012 was the best event of all. And I was so glad that they were hiring me to monitor the interview room.