Cradling his Epiphone Emperor Regent as he stands against the backdrop of a Buddhist temple, guitarist Vangthanousone Bouaphanh cuts a dashing figure. Vangthanousone comes from the "Land of a Million ...

After 25 years of silence the private Lao music and film industries are reawakening Filmed over 10 years the documentary GETTING LAOD THE RISE OF MODERN LAO MUSIC AND FILMS follows a new generation of ...

Twenty-five years ago I joined a team from the Japan Foundation on a tour of Isan to meet and talk to molam artists, as part of a project on Lao music in the region. We met up with the then-president ...

What's it like to hear stories about your parents' home country and try to learn its traditions and language without ever having set foot there? Tackling questions of identity is ever so complicated ...