Folk songs are more Pan

New Straits Times | September 25, 2001| | Copyright

Ricky Yap
New Straits Times
09-25-2001
Folk songs are more Pan
Byline: Ricky Yap
Edition: 2*
Section: It's Showbiz
Memo: (STF) - Taiwanese folk song singer Pan An Pang are among the singers who will take music-lovers down memory lane when they stage a series of concerts in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Baru this week. Ricky Yap reports.

PRIOR to the onslaught of pop music or the emergence of rhythm and blues, folk songs (or min yao ker in Mandarin) ruled the charts and airwaves in Taiwan.

Unlike pop music, folk songs are more acoustic-based and focus on social issues rather than the love themes that ...

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