by Phally Chroy
Kong Nai is one of the few remaining Cambodian living masters in the world that has managed to survive and play one of Cambodia’s most important traditional instruments, the chapie dong vien. In part to an Australian TV show, the TV station set up a shot at a local Cambodian venue where Master Kong Nai played music for a period of 2 hours. Through my internship with Cambodian Living Arts, I was very fortunate to be around masters like Master Kong Nai because a big aspect of my research is to identifying practitioner of music who survived the genocide, and most importantly how they are able to able to reach to the people because these practitioners are using these classical Cambodian instruments in the music.
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