[Tlc] C-film and concert

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI from our friends at UCLA.
Thanks,
justin

Friday, December 5, 2008
Concert by Dengue Fever & Documentary Film "Sleepwalking Through the Mekong"

7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center
Scripps College
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont California, 91711 
Free and open to the public.
For more information please call the Scripps College Humanities Institute (909) 621-8326, or visit our website: http://www.scrippscollege.edu/campus/humanities-institute/index.php

Dengue Fever is Cambodian songstress Chhom Nimol, Zac Holtzman (guitar/vocals), Ethan Holtzman (Farfisa), Senon Williams (bass), Paul Smith (drums) and David Ralicke (sax). The band's music has been featured in a number of film and television shows including City of Ghosts, Must Love Dogs, Broken Flowers, and twice on Showtime's hit series, Weeds. They have released three albums, Dengue Fever, Escape From Dragon House and the recently released Venus On Earth. They are based in Los Angeles, California.
Visit their website http://www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic

"Sleepwalking Through the Mekong"
2007, Cambodia/US, 70 min
John Pirozzi, Director
Visit the website http://sleepwalkingthroughthemekong.com/

Sleepwalking Through the Mekong follows Los Angeles-based band Dengue Fever on their recent journey to Cambodia to perform 60s and 70s Cambodian rock n' roll in the country where it was created and very nearly destroyed. The odyssey is a homecoming for the band's lead singer, Chhom Nimol, and a transformation for the rest of the band as they perform with master musicians and record new songs along the way. Cambodia is often synonymous with the brutal Khmer Rouge regime that left millions dead and scattered refugees around the globe. This tragedy overshadows the story of Cambodia's music scene in the 1960s and 1970s when Cambodian musicians reinvented Western rock n' roll with a distinctly Khmer flavor to create a sound that is at once familiar and completely original. Sleepwalking Through the Mekong celebrates this vibrant but long-overlooked genre and reveals the power of music to weave a common thread between extremely different cultures. 
 


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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu