Eleven Griffith students are headed on overseas adventures after being awarded scholarships to work and study internationally under Australia s New Colombo Plan.
The traditional Khmer musical instrument called the ken was in a state of increasing scarcity of players, so back in 2018 the team running the Khmer Magic Music Bus of Cambodia Living Arts (CLA) introduced a ken instrument class in Oddar Meanchey province to help train new players of traditional music
The traditional Khmer musical instrument called the ken was in a state of increasing scarcity of players, so back in 2018 the team running the Khmer Magic Music Bus of Cambodia Living Arts (CLA) introduced a ken instrument class in Oddar Meanchey province to help train new players of traditional music so that the next generation of Cambodians are able to inherit and preserve this important part
November 30 will be the sixth anniversary of the chapei dong veng – a stringed musical instrument unique to Cambodia – being added to UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The honour was announced in 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Musician Keat Sokim adapted nine classical Khmer musical instruments – tro so, tro ou, tro khser bei, chapei dong veng, ta khe, khim, khloy, rorneat ek and phin to western melodies and created the first Khmer music textbooks.