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 ...

Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...

Experience the rarely heard traditional music of Cambodia at a concert titled "Visions of Angkor" in Fall River April 24. The concert will feature virtuoso musicians from Cambodia and is supported by ...

When Bay Area singer-songwriter Laura Mam asked her mother to translate lyrics into Khmer, it was as if she had laid a bridge between worlds. Mam knew her parents had fled the Khmer Rouge — a ...

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 ...

In 1921, the Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók stated that “The ancient peasant music of each people is disappearing day by day, submerged beneath the waves of new cultures, so that ...

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 ...

Back in 2009, California band Dengue Fever – fronted by sultry Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol – brought a steamy brew of Cambodian pop, surf rock and psychedelica to FSU’s Club Downunder. Like all ...