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 ...

La Jolla Playhouse just opened the play "Cambodian Rock Band" by UC San Diego graduate Lauren Yee. The play serves up a redemptive tale of a father and daughter finding each other amidst decades-old ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- A Bay Area mother and daughter are leading the way, as an explosion of new music is coming out of Cambodia after being silenced for years. Laura Mam did not set out to become a ...

Experience the rarely heard traditional music of Cambodia at a concert titled "Visions of Angkor" in Fall River April 24. The concert will feature virtuoso musicians from Cambodia and is supported by ...

Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...

Cambodia’s first-ever modern music theater work, Where Elephants Weep, will have its official world premiere in Phnom Penh, Cambodia this November, it was announced by John Burt, the show’s Executive ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...

Throughout its history, Cambodia has been ruled by royalty and rogues. It has seen unparalleled heights, like those symbolized by the majestic Angkor Wat temple complex, and unspeakable lows, such as ...

Playing live in the WBEZ studios (from left): Yim Chan thy, playing woodwinds; Lun Phanith, playing the Kse diev, a single string instrument with a gord; Nhouk Sinat, playing the stringed instrument ...