Eli Carlton-Pearson, 18, sits cross-legged on a kgray, the wooden- slat bed common in Cambodia, and wails out an improvised blues tune on his homemade guitar, fingers flashing like sparks across the ...

Unless one is visiting a place with a large expat Cambodian population – such as Long Beach, California – it is almost unheard of to hear a Khmer language song played during large festivals and ...

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 ...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Khmer residents of a commune in the southernmost province of Ca Mau can enjoy their unique pentatonic music form once again as youngsters take to it with enthusiasm. VietNamNet ...

Khmer-American singer Laura Mam and her band The Like Me’s have finally made the jump from internet to television with the release of their first music video, Pka Proheam Rik Popreaym (Morning Flowers ...

LOWELL — The city is preparing to celebrate Khmer New Year. Though Khmer New Year is typically celebrated April 13-15, after the harvest season has ended and the people are able to enjoy the fruits of ...

Many of the old images in Bochan Huy's "Chnam Oun 16" music video are haunting — fleeting, grainy footage of workers in rural Cambodian labor camps and Phnom Penh's crumbling shops and streets, ...

With the introduction of modern musical forms, the folk music of ethnic Khmer in the southern region has encountered multiple problems retaining its popular status. With the introduction of modern ...

Writer Vaddey Ratner is used to processing pain through fiction. Her best-selling debut novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was based on her experiences as little girl in Cambodia, where she and her ...

Sin Setsochhata, an emerging singer-songwriter from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has a deep sense of history and a profound sense of self. Her easy smile reflects the sure-handed emotion of her songs, ...