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Greetings:

Tonght, Thursday in Phnom Penh, Nestor is at Villa Grange, The Blue Souls are at Trattoria Bello, Antonio & the Playful Mind are at The Box Office, Mayari Duo are at Samai Rum Distillery and then The Extraordinary Chambers go late at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot, Kellie Olsen plays at a Kampot pepper event at Bohemiaz.

On Friday night in Phnom Penh, Mirasol & James are at Farm To Table, Guitar Too with George & Gaby is at Craft, Geography of the Moon are at Seekers Spirits and David Z is at Botanico.  Khmer/French electronic artist Neo Geodesia has one show only at Meta House with DJs to follow.  Serdar & Aisha are at Little Susie, while you can find house band La Union at the newly opened Despacito Latin and Jazz Club.  Later AlliG & TheQuilas are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In the south, Kora Lau begins four nights of music to celebrate the one year anniversary of The Pig Pen, and Billy Page at is at Kep Natural.  In Siem Reap, Bless & Giuliano are at Ubuntu and Sokunthea & Friends are at Ben’s Corner.

A choice of boat cruises in Phnom Penh on Saturday evenint – Geography of the Moon and Lewis McTighe hosted by Tacos Kokopelli and later Jazz Cruise Vol 7 – Nuages de Swing with Intan Andriana & Friends at Crocodile River Cruise.  Elsewhere The Busking Kings are at Front Bar, The Broken Cymbal at Seekers Spirits, PRERNA plus Green Leaf Motif at Craft, Ice & Dara at Botanico and Mourin Terry at Cloud.  Later The Lark are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In the afternoon in Kampot Nico Thoma is part of the festivities at Kampot Lane and later Kellie Olsen is at The Pig Pen, while Trowsers Down play The Bay.

On Sunday Billy Page is at Villa Grange, Phil O’Flaherty and Brooke Palmer are at The Vine, and the regular Sunday Sundowners open mic at Tacos Kokopelli and Stu Cottom at Bar Oz go ahead.  Later, Boxchords are at Back Street Bar and the Electric Muxu Orchestra debut at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Ant Colloff is at The Pig Pen in Kampot and Giuliano Turello is at Duckmart in Siem Reap.

Department of Coming Soon: Last Year

Available very soon: Around the Traps 2023 / Passing Chords Volume V – from the pages and pixels of LengPleng in 2023, it’s the book of the year, featuring interviews with Geography of the Moon, The Lazy Drunks, Summer Lee Carlson, Derrick Walker, Lewis McTighe, Gary Custance, Cove Aaronoff and many more.  Also the Passing Chords mini-profiles for the year which include Brooke Palmer, Angkor Classique, Rod Tolentino, Felix McFadden and a surprising number of Japanese musicians.  Secure your copy by emailing gigs@lengpleng.com.   Only $7.50 (or $5 if you’re in it!) – buy one for your shelf and one to send home to Mum.

Musicians: They’re Just Like Us

Stu Cottom lathers up for his morning shaving routine.

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Please welcome our new Friend of LengPleng – Back Street Bar, known by their motto “Phnom Penh’s best garden live music and dance club”.

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Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Colin Grafton, visiting Burkina Faso musician Chebeen, Nathan Fanoni and William Rosas at Meta House for the Chebeen and Friends gig on Wednesday 3 January 2024

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See you around the traps.
your correspondent,

 

 

Guillermo Wheremount
LengPleng.com
gigs@lengpleng.com (mailto:gigs@lengpleng.com)

Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 11 January 2024

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