Dengue Fever Band (Photo: The New York Times)04-14-2010
Music Industry News Network
The Embassy of the United States of America in Cambodia (http://cambodia.usembassy.gov) announced today that they will sponsor a free live show by Cambodian rock band Dengue Fever (http://www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic) in Phnom Penh, the evening of Thursday May 13, 2010 at the Cambodian Vietnamese Friendship Park. The event is part of upcoming celebrations by the U.S. Embassy to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cambodia.
Dengue Fever also confirmed today additional tour dates in South East Asia including two new dates in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam in addition to previously announced dates in Scandinavia, Germany, Turkey, Vietnam and China. The band also will perform at a benefit performance in conjunction with Cambodian Living Arts (CLA), a screening of the bands documentary Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (http://sleepwalkingthroughthemekong.com/) and a panel discussion with emerging Khmer rock bands at the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia (http://www.opccambodia.org/index.hl) while in Cambodia. Sleepwalking depicts Dengue Fever's first trip to Cambodia in 2006 as the first western band to perform Khmer Rock, Cambodia's lost music, since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Confirmed tour dates are:
5/01 @ Bergenfest, Bergen NORWAY
5/03 @ Berns, Stockholm, SWEDEN
5/04 @ Atomic Cafe, Munich, GERMANY
5/05 @ IKSV Salon, Istanbul, TURKEY
5/08 @ Club for Art & Music Appreciation (Club Cama), Hanoi, VIETNAM
5/09 @ Boathouse, Ho Chi Mihn City, VIETNAM (Just Added)
5/10 @ Meta House, Phnom Penh CAMBODIA (Just Added, Screening & Q&A of "Sleepwalking Through The Mekong" documentary)
5/11 @ TBD, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA (Just Added Benefit show for Cambodian Living Arts / CLA)
5/13 @ Cambodian Vietnamese Friendship Park, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA (Just Added, free concert)
5/14 @ Star Wars, Ho Chi Mihn City, VIETNAM (Just Added)
5/15 @ Grappas Cellar, Hong Kong, CHINA
5/21 @ Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
5/22 @ Baker Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH
5/29 @ Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, CA
9/9-12 @ Bestival, Isle of Wight, ENGLAND
9/10-12 @ End of the Road Festival, Dorset, ENGLAND
"The US Embassy is thrilled to be able to host Dengue Fever for a free concert in Phnom Penh on May 13, 2010, as part of our celebration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cambodia and the United States," said Carol A. Rodley, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia. "I cannot think of a better way to kick of this celebration than to have an acclaimed American band performing music influenced by some of the great Cambodian artists of the 1960s. Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pan Ron and many other artists perished more than 30 years ago under the Khmer Rouge, but their musical legacy lives on to inspire and delight new generations of listeners, not just in Cambodia but around the world."
Dengue Fever is currently in the process of writing, demoing and fleshing out music for the band's fourth full-length album of new material to be released in 2011. The band is set to launch a new online store at the end of April.
Dengue Fever also confirmed today additional tour dates in South East Asia including two new dates in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam in addition to previously announced dates in Scandinavia, Germany, Turkey, Vietnam and China. The band also will perform at a benefit performance in conjunction with Cambodian Living Arts (CLA), a screening of the bands documentary Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (http://sleepwalkingthroughthemekong.com/) and a panel discussion with emerging Khmer rock bands at the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia (http://www.opccambodia.org/index.hl) while in Cambodia. Sleepwalking depicts Dengue Fever's first trip to Cambodia in 2006 as the first western band to perform Khmer Rock, Cambodia's lost music, since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Confirmed tour dates are:
5/01 @ Bergenfest, Bergen NORWAY
5/03 @ Berns, Stockholm, SWEDEN
5/04 @ Atomic Cafe, Munich, GERMANY
5/05 @ IKSV Salon, Istanbul, TURKEY
5/08 @ Club for Art & Music Appreciation (Club Cama), Hanoi, VIETNAM
5/09 @ Boathouse, Ho Chi Mihn City, VIETNAM (Just Added)
5/10 @ Meta House, Phnom Penh CAMBODIA (Just Added, Screening & Q&A of "Sleepwalking Through The Mekong" documentary)
5/11 @ TBD, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA (Just Added Benefit show for Cambodian Living Arts / CLA)
5/13 @ Cambodian Vietnamese Friendship Park, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA (Just Added, free concert)
5/14 @ Star Wars, Ho Chi Mihn City, VIETNAM (Just Added)
5/15 @ Grappas Cellar, Hong Kong, CHINA
5/21 @ Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
5/22 @ Baker Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH
5/29 @ Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, CA
9/9-12 @ Bestival, Isle of Wight, ENGLAND
9/10-12 @ End of the Road Festival, Dorset, ENGLAND
"The US Embassy is thrilled to be able to host Dengue Fever for a free concert in Phnom Penh on May 13, 2010, as part of our celebration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cambodia and the United States," said Carol A. Rodley, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia. "I cannot think of a better way to kick of this celebration than to have an acclaimed American band performing music influenced by some of the great Cambodian artists of the 1960s. Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pan Ron and many other artists perished more than 30 years ago under the Khmer Rouge, but their musical legacy lives on to inspire and delight new generations of listeners, not just in Cambodia but around the world."
Dengue Fever is currently in the process of writing, demoing and fleshing out music for the band's fourth full-length album of new material to be released in 2011. The band is set to launch a new online store at the end of April.
11 comments:
Cambodian Vietnamese Friendship Park my ass. Until Youn abandon it's evil intentions on Khmer, there is no friendship between Khmer and Youn.
This Dngue Fever band is sucks! Couple of years ago I have ordered couple of their album from TowerRecord and they are sucks!
It is an insult to Khmer Nation to name Khmer yuon friendship park.
Good Nimol will able to represent the Khmer Krom in Prey Nokor.
She is a Khmer and her voice is better than some of us. She will able to protest again the foreigner regime in Kampuchea Krom by her songs.
Ho Chi Ming City ? Who is Ho Chi Ming ? Where he was born ?
He was not from, never live in and did know this part. This part is not belonging to the regime of the northern communist Viet.
He is really not a taliban ?
Dengue Fever rock the world!
Interesting? . . .
Since 1991, the number of Vietnam Communist Party members coming from the local Khmer group has increased by fivefold to nearly 12,000. Many of them have been elected to the National Assembly or People’s Councils at various levels.
During a meeting held on April 6 to celebrate the coming Khmer festival Chol Chnam Thmey, Vietnam State President Nguyen Minh Triet praised Khmer cadres and compatriots for their contributions to the previous struggle for national independence and the current process of national construction and socio-economic development.
Currently there are about 1.3 million Khmers in the south of Vietnam. In recent years, their lives have improved considerably thanks to the Party and State’s support policies. The poverty rate among the group has dropped from 40 percent in 2006 to 28 percent in 2009.
The meeting was attended by leaders from several ministries and more than 350 Khmer people, heroic Vietnamese mothers, and monks in southern Vietnam.
Congratulation Dengue Fever !!!So happy you guys made it there. Please show them what what you made of. Go go right ahead and rock Cambodia! Yepee!!!!!
Hey! where is the Muk? They too should be there.
Yeah! where is the Muk? They too are the bestest.
So sad to see so many hate and politically-motivated messages on this page, as this is about music, and furthermore about a band which revives some of the Khmer grandeur before the war destroyed most of it.
DENGUE FEVER knows how to rock !
Stuck in Siem Reap, I am so sad not to be able to join the party...
By the way, Cambodians : Don't forget your past, but focus on your future...
Olivier
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