Master Musician Visits Melbourne
Mar 1st, 2008 by Jinja
Melbourne friends: if you can handle public television and have a musical bent, this should be of interest.
Be sure to say ‘hi’ to Mongkol (the translator) or Jai (the one with the lip ring). Tell ‘em that Jinja sent you.
March
Buena Vista Northcote Social Club
with Ouch Savy
Benefit show for Cambodian Living Arts
Kong Nay hits the Australian shores as part of ‘Womad’ festival and in support of Cambodian Living Arts!
Respectfully dubbed “The Ray Charles of Cambodia,” Master Kong Nay is a charismatic blind musician whose trademark dark glasses and pock marked smile are known all over Cambodia. Nay is renowned in Cambodia as one of the great artists to survive the genocide of Pol Pot. Kong Nay is a master of the Chapei, a traditional form of improvised song-making that is often compared to American Delta Blues. Accompanied by his own spirited strumming on the chapei dang weng (a Cambodian long-necked lute), Kong Nay uses his lively voice and tenacious word play to cleverly improvise poetry and song. Kong Nay routinely gets his audience dancing in the aisles. Ouch Savy is Kong Nay’s protégé and is part of the new generation of Chapei musicians who are at the beginning of an emerging musical awareness that could come to rival imported karaoke and pop!
‘The Flute Player‘ – an extraordinary story of survival – will be screened at 10pm.
Cambodian flutes and merchandise will also be available on the night.
$18+bf on sale now through the Northcote Social Club box office – 9486 1677 or www.northcotesocialclub.com or $20 at the door if still available.
More Information - www.cambodianlivingarts.org
Media contact –
Julien Poulfon – julienpoulfon@hotmail.com
