U Tin, a slide guitarist who became a global ambassador for Burmese music while working as a plumber under a military dictatorship, died on Feb. 5 in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 87. His daughter Daw Win ...

It was clear to her we needed to hear it in Buffalo. That will happen at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bidwell Parkway and Elmwood Avenue, where a small group of violin-playing Burmese children from Buffalo ...

After coming to the U.S., many Burmese refugees try to preserve their culture and music with traditional instruments and dance. Most of these... Burmese Refugees Preserve Culture Through Music Before ...

ACCORDING to Kit Young—an American pianist and composer who has been performing Burmese sandaya music (piano played in Burmese style) since 1987—the Hawaiian slide guitar was probably introduced to ...

The song was a cry against the living hell that descended upon the people of Myanmar since February 1st, when the military overthrew the country’s civilian government. It was also a song of solidarity ...

Like many other Burmese scenes, standing by that pyre was beautiful and brutal, spiritual without a trace of sentimentality. It was an intimate glimpse at Burmese culture. Sharing that nuanced moment ...

Clint Conley and I are developing a punkers’ Branson, a backwater sinkhole where yesterday’s Grand Old Buzz Cuts can go on pretending they’re famous. All we need are a location and start-up capital.

On a muggy day in May in the ramshackle city of Rangoon, an elderly Burmese man straightened rows of jade jewelry in a souvenir case. He organized a stack of traditional Burmese music CDs, one of ...

His daughter Daw Win Win Toe said the cause was complications of diabetes. Tin was one of several prominent Myanmar musicians who incorporated Western instruments into a diverse canon that spanned ...

The idea came to Win Min Thant a few weeks ago. She has always loved an anthem from the musical “Les Miserables,” a song dear to her that was often on her mind, creating a kind of rhythm even as she ...