> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of caeruleancentaur
> >li_sasxsek@... wrote:
>
> >Not exactly on topic here, but I'm watching a blugrass show we
have
> >here weekly on PBS, and the band has a Japanese guy playing
> some type
> >of 3-stringed instrument with them. It's an interesting mix.
>
> Undoubtedly a samisen, loosely meaning three-stringed. What is
the
> name of the show? I'd like to watch for it on our PBS channel.
Lots
> of bluegrass music here in southern Appalachia.
Yes, it was a samisen (I wonder if they make an electric version?).
The mix of bluegrass and traditional Japanese styles was pretty
cool. He even played a song that was a bit bluesy, singing in
Japanese. The musician is Takeharu Kunimoto. Apparently he came out
here from Japan to study bluegrass music.
The show is Song Of The Mountains. The East Tennessee (=Knoxville)
PBS station has it on every Saturday at 10:00PM, just before Austin
City Limits. We also have a non-Commercial radio station, WDVX
which I believe has a streaming version via the internet.
http://www.songofthemountains.org/
http://www.wdvx.com/main.html