Mekong Blues in New York…
Other performances not to be missed in the series of events and exhibitions of ‘Season of Cambodia‘ brought to New York by ‘Cambodian Living Arts’ are the master class and the concert given by Kong Nay playing the chapey and singing Khmer poems with a raspy voice. At times it is as if the Mississipi river was flowing in the Mekong.
Kong Nay, like many other Cambodian artists, was living in Dey Krohom. He was evicted from his house in January 2009, just a few days before the violent crackdown on the remaining residents of the community took place (see here).
