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Inner Mongolian music ensemble Ih Tsetsn and American banjo player Abigail Washburn decided to meet on stage for a cross-cultural collaboration
Hua’er folksongs, often about love and longing, are popular in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, along China’s Silk Road.
During a private reception honoring the sponsors and participants for the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, two musicians from Kenya, Polycarp Awino
Winyo is one of over forty musicians from Kenya who have joined us at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Band manager Zhu Zhizhong and musicians Baiyinmenghe, Baoyin, and Boerzhijinfu of the group Ih Tsetsn from Inner Mongolia
Liang Xiaoying from Leishan in the Guizhou Province, sings two traditional Miao songs, "Song of Spring" and "Date When We Are Young"
Whenever I hear Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” I think of the opening credits of the movie 10 Things I Hate About You.
I recently received an invitation from Dr. Wang Hangguang, director general of Guizhou Province Department of Culture, to join him and his colleagues in Guiyang
Beijing, once capital of the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty in the thirteen and fourteenth centuries, has become a center of Mongolian music in China
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