TaiwanFest Amis Kakeng 阿美族旮亙樂團 Elder's Drinking Song 老人飲酒歌

Описание: Telus TaiwanFest 2013 Vancouver (Aug 31 -- Sep 1, 2013) - The Amis Kakeng Musical Group 台東阿美族旮亙樂團 Elder's Drinking Song 老人飲酒歌, plays traditional Amis music and songs of the Amis people, an aboriginal tribe in Eastern Taiwan. 'Return to Innocence' too. Kakeng meaning bamboo bell 指竹鐘, is a traditional bell women used to announce they're getting married. Since 1997, Sawtoy Saytay, the group's leader has been producing the traditional bamboo musical instruments one by one including the nose flute, pan flute, bamboo flute, and Angklung that are now used by his band members.

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The Amis Kakeng Musical Group has toured around the world to America, France, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Pacific Islands, and China. They have collaborated with Taipei Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Taipei Philharmonic Choir to transform traditional Amis songs into symphonic music or better known as the "new symphony of aboriginal music" throughout the area. This year at the Telus TaiwanFest 2013, the Amis Kakeng Musical Group collaborates with Ken Hsieh's Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra to perform traditional Taiwanese aboriginal songs. The Ami is the largest of the 13 indigenous groups in Taiwan. The tribe's population is less than 150,000 in the 2000 census.

[A Video by Ray Van Eng -- www.vancouver21.com ]

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Ray Van Eng is an award-winning photographer, screenwriter and movie & TV Producer. One of his videos was selected to be part of the Hava Nagila Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (http://www.mjhnyc.org/) in New York, NY. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.

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