New annual Songwriter Festivals Celebrate Kingdom’s Musical Heritage — Raising Funds for Free Education of Khmer Children​ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Going through highs and lows in life, Chanphal Sok found himself moving from place to place with his mother as a child to find enough to support themselves. Writing about his tough life in his Khmer ...