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 ...

If you play Dengue Fever’s “The Deepest Lake on the Planet” (For the record, that would be Siberia’s Lake Baikal, 25 million years old and threatened) on an off-brand .mp3 player with your crappiest ...

A new opera debuting this weekend in Lowell, Mass., features a blend of traditional Cambodian music, Western classical, and rock. The love story, sung in English and Khmer, unfolds in the horrific ...

You'll cry. You'll laugh. You'll dance. Despite all of the tragedy inherent to "Cambodian Rock Band," "dancing is heavily encouraged, especially at the end," says director Nelson T. Eusebio III. But ...

Laura Mam is Cambodian American, and her mother, Thida Buth, is a Khmer Rouge survivor. They're fostering the pop music movement in Cambodia that... Across Languages And Generations, One Family Is ...

Cambodia has chosen 'In the Life of Music,' a drama that follows the fortunes of a family across three generations, as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars. By ...

Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, says co-director Caylee So. By Mathew ...

Southwest Chamber Music proudly turns 20 next year. It champions new music and local music avidly and intelligently. It reaches out to its community, notably in its meaningful education programs. And ...

You would not tell from her sweet-as-honey voice and gentle lyrics that Laura Mam's family history has been one of pain and struggle. Her parents managed to escape the brutal regime of Cambodia's ...