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Greetings:

This weekend in Sihanoukville, the Bay of Lights festival will feature many top local and barang acts including Kampot Playboys, Maki Orkestr, Big D. Walker & The Blue Souls and Intan Andriana & Friends along with numerous DJs.

Tonight in Phnom Penh, Lisa Concepcion is at Botanico, Antonio & Toyoyuki are at Waterside, Stu Cottom is at Villa Grange early and Excelsior late, while Temple go even later at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Jam-Cha are at Supernova Bar and Giuliano & Andy play Harry’s & The Welsh Consulate.

Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Phnom Penh on Friday include Pablo, Leandro and Yusbel at Itacate, Diego Dimarques & Phil Javelle at Hideout, Joshua Chiang at Tacos Kokopelli, and Green Leaf Motif at Botanico before Srey Ka & K’n’E at Oscar’s on the Corner.  The Jampot open mic at Karma Traders in Kampot is hosted by Ant Colloff, and in Siem Reap, Gerard Evans is at The Welsh Consulate, Andy & Chema are at AMBAR and Trio Salazar is at Villa D.

Saturday night in Phnom Penh, Chor Yee is at Seekers Spirits, The Blue Souls are at Aquarius, The Broken Cymbal are at Botanico and La Union at Le Moon.  Mourin Terry is at Cloud, Diego Dimarques is at Excelsior, and The Cosys are at Mayazon, while at Oscar’s on the Corner Stu Cottom opens for Cambodia Country Band.  In Siem Reap, Los Primos are at Arin’s.

Looking forward to Sunday Javelle, Hess & Potter begin a Jazz Splash month of Sundays at Villa Grange, while Clay George is at The Vine and Stu Cottom is at  Bar Oz.  The Sunday Sundowners open mic with Scott Bywater keeps on carrying on at Tacos Kokopelli, Diego Dimarques is at The Confidential and Joe & the Jumping Jacks are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  Roberto Salgado hosts the open mic at Funky Durian in Kampot, and Swing Reapers are at Villa D in Siem Reap.

New releases this week of videos by Sochi, the singer and songwriter from the Sochi & Stan duo that produced Cheap Charlie, the number one song in the Radio Oun Top 100 Songs of All Time Countdown in 2019.  The two new songs linked here are in more of a Khmer style – Why you block me on Facebook? featuring some familiar faces, and the anti-smoking song If can stop, should to stop.

The LengPleng Feature

With Cambodian heart – Satiya Oaw and Lovely Hearts Arts Academy

This weekend sees the launch, in Ta Jet Commune in Siem Reap, of a new NGO, Lovely Hearts Arts Academy, who aim to provide vocational based education and training with a focus on arts, technology and agriculture, filling a perceived gap in the sector.  In attendance will be Khmer Australian pop singer/songwriter Satiya Oaw, just back from his second tour of Europe, who is setting up the Lovely Hearts music programme.   From Paris, Satiya was good enough to answer some of our questions.

For many barang who read LengPleng, contemporary Cambodian pop is a bit of a mystery.  What music has influenced you as you have developed as an artist? Artists from the Khmer Golden Era such as Sinn Sisamouth, but also western artists like Michael Jackson and Babyface.

Read the whole article here

Department of Mutual Support:  Friends of LengPleng

LengPleng is now offering (further) assistance in promoting live music throughout Cambodia.  Being a Friend of LengPleng will assist venues and musical acts in promoting direct to our growing readership: the committed live music audience.  Becoming a Friend of LengPleng will get your logo into the weekly email and onto the weekly wrap page, – see below – and all your gig listings will automatically click through to a page on our website (i.e. a non-Facebook presence for those punters who don’t Facebook) for further information, photos, videos and so on.  We can create a starter page, then it is yours to change as you please.   Oscar’s on the Corner, Little Susie and The Deck are now onboard – Individuals may also wish to nominate a venue or band to support either anonymously or for the personal glory.

Your contributions will help us keep the lights on and upgrade the infrastructure to more reliable levels at LengPleng Towers – $25 for three months, $40 for six months and $75 for 12 months.  Everything else stays free.  Email gigs@lengpleng.com for further details.

 

Steve Porte Photo(s) of the Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three continents jamming together in one frame at finale of International Jazz Day events – Jeffro Starks, Simon Wong and Colin Grafton at The Great Blues Jam, Oscar’s on the Corner, Monday 1 May 2023

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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 4 May 2023

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For DJs and clubs, we recommend Phnom Penh Underground

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*Note that Wednesday events are often not announced until early in the week – check back here for updates*

Coming soon:

  • Argies (Argentina) plus Soselo Summer, Radioactive Death Monkey and We Are Ewe, 8 pm, 11 May, The Deck
  • Soselo Summer, We Are Ewe and Gaby Courroux, 7.30 pm, 12 May, Birdcage
  • Japan Guitar Shop, 8 pm, 13 May, The Deck
  • Stiff Little Punks, 10 pm, 13 May, Oscar’s on the Corner
  • The Sock Essentials, 7 pm, 13 April, 1960 Restaurant (Kampot)
  • Miss Sarawan, 14 May, Waterside
  • Hexis (Denmark) plus Doch Chkae, Nightmare AD, As The Heart Betrays and Sinners Turned Saints (Thailand), 7 pm, 15 May, Oscar’s on the Corner
  • The Cosys, 8 pm, 16 May, Karma Traders (Kampot)
  • Greg Beshers & Marianna Hensley, 7.30 pm, 17 May, Voodoo Boulevard
  • The Broken Cymbal, 8 pm, 24 May, Meta House
By Weekly Wrap