Orphaned at age 14 in Cambodia, Bun Loeung was forced to perform as a musician full time simply to survive. During a career that spanned continents, Loeung played every venue imaginable, from Asian ...
Students on a service trip were stunned to find many villagers have never heard their own culture’s music. Chaperone builds crowdfunding campaign to bring traditional Cambodian Arts to Countryside.
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s musical heritage is getting a bold, modern revival as young artists breathe new life into traditional sounds. The NeoRoots Project is reimagining ancient instruments and ...
Playing live in the WBEZ studios (from left): Yim Chan thy, playing woodwinds; Lun Phanith, playing the Kse diev, a single string instrument with a gord; Nhouk Sinat, playing the stringed instrument ...
LOWELL — Songs for Cambodia, a collaboration between Middlesex Community College and the Lowell Public Schools created to foster and preserve classical Cambodian music, is beginning to pay off. Thanks ...
The tragic story of Cambodia in the '60s and '70s is well-known: It became engulfed in the Vietnam War, then more than a million Cambodians died under the Khmer Rouge regime. Doctors, lawyers, ...
La Jolla Playhouse just opened the play "Cambodian Rock Band" by UC San Diego graduate Lauren Yee. The play serves up a redemptive tale of a father and daughter finding each other amidst decades-old ...
The Cambodian pop music of the 1960s seems like an unlikely template for an American rock 'n' roll band, but that's the sound that captivated Dengue Fever keyboard player Ethan Holtzman during an ...