Kantreum is performed with classical instruments including drums, th pei (a flute-like instrument), the tro (a low-pitched, two-stringed fiddle with a coconut-shell body) and chhing (similar to a pair ...

For Seak Smith, 37, producing the first-ever Cambodian Music Festival on Sunday at the Ford Amphitheatre has been a labor of love – and duty. The child of ethnic Cambodians who lived in Thailand, ...

CAMBODIAN singers of the traditional Khmer music known as kantrum are losing out in popularity to Thai singers. Kantrum has an up-tempo musical style which tends to feature female singers. A recent ...