Yoeun Mek
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Yoeun Mek
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Yoeun Mek was a Cambodian musician who joined the Cambodian Master Performers Program in 1999, an organization founded by his friend Arn Chorn-Pond to preserve Cambodian music, arts and rituals and keep traditional instruments from going extinct. The program, in its quest to preserve Khmer music, sought out Cambodia's "nearly extinct instruments and the people who can make and play them." 80-90% of the musicians of the country were "purged" by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979. Out of the people
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2023-10-19T04:23:11Z
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