Country and Eastern music

A series of Dong ethnic group folk music concerts has attracted considerable attention in Beijing. It is not the first time that such music has been heard here, but it is rare to see a group of grassroots musicians from the countryside present their music on their own in the capital.

These musicians from Liping, Guizhou province performed the Grand Song of the Dong people, a kind of a cappella production that was proclaimed by UNESCO as a masterpiece of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.

Neither sponsored by the government nor invited by any organization to promote intangible cultural heritage, the Grand Song choir simply came to Beijing in the hope of making a living by their music.