DAWU, CHINA — These are dangerous times to be a Tibetan folk singer. Drolmakyi learned that when she opened the only place to listen to live music in this dusty little town perched high on the Tibetan ...

Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the ...

HE WAS a political prisoner whose work to preserve Tibetan music made him a human rights hero. Now, with his critically acclaimed documentary, “Tibet in Song,” slated for release in New York on Friday ...

Documentary. Written and directed by Ngawang Choephel. In Tibetan with English subtitles. (Not rated. 86 minutes. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) Tibetan ...

Tibetan folk singer Techung performs at the Old U.S. Mint, May 18 Tibetan folk singer Techung, who will perform at the Lakefront Arena during the historic visit of the Dalai Lama on the afternoon of ...

Raised as an exile in India, Tibetan ethnomusicologist and first-time filmmaker Ngawang Choephel returned to his homeland as an adult in 1995, video camera in hand, to document the rare pockets of ...

For a Tibetan folk singer like Suolang Zhaxi, he now demonstrates his love as a father toward his daughter through a song he's written recently. Tibetan folk singer Suolang Zhaxi (right) and his ...

Some music instructors might feel disappointed if their students were to stop playing after a few years. But Migmar Tsering doesn’t feel that way. Just over a year ago, the Tibetan man started a music ...

In 1995, Ngawang Choephel returned to his native Tibet to document the country’s fast-disappearing folk-singing tradition. Instead, he was accused of being a spy and sentenced to 18 years in prison by ...