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Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo
Contemporary Chinese percussion with songs, dance, drums, cymbals, gongs, and bamboo performed by Byron Au Yong, Karen Akada Sakata, Ying Zhou, and special guests.

Piao Zhu began as a ceremonial work created for the Seattle Asian Art Museum in 2006. The idea was inspired by the legend of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove - a band of Chinese scholars and poets who met to escape political and societal duress during the 3rd century BCE. More

Flying Bamboo is available to perform for various functions with two to six musicians.
Photos © 2006-2007 Jean-Stephane & Haitao Wang