LIVE PERFORMANCE - Children of Angkor @ The Flicks
39B Street 95
Monday Mar. 22, 19:00
For April 2010 Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) is sponsoring a tour of the USA by two of Cambodia's most talented young musicians carrying on thousand year old traditions from the time of Angkor Wat.
Durning Cambodian New Year month (April) Sinat Nhok and Srey Peou Pheoun will journey for the first time from Phnom Penh to the USA, touring Cambodian Communities across the USA.
Both students grew up children of rice farmers in rural Cambodia whose talents were spotted by CLA. They have been trained in ancient traditions of poetry chanting and classical wedding music by three of the few old masters of these forms to survive Pol Pots genocide.
Their performances, coordinated with projected images of their homeland and a children's book being published in the USA about Sinat, include Srey Peou chanting poetry (accompanied by Sinat on the tro khmer or Cambodian violin), and talking about her passion for ancient poetry. Sinat will demonstrate all seven ancient instruments in the CD of classical wedding music that accompanies the children's book.
CLA brings this performance to demonstrate a dream coming true- that Cambodia become known around the world not for the killing fields or only the stones of Angkor, but for its vibrant and beautiful living arts.
