Olympic spirit – Chinese bluegrass
With so much of the world focused this week on the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, it seems fitting that a video of Chinese bluegrass has been posted on YouTube.
Here is Mei Han’s Red Chamber picking a solid version of Katy Hill along with John Reischman and the Jaybirds, taken from a concert this past spring.
Han is a noted master of the Chinese zheng, though she is performing on the liuqin in this video, posted by her record label, ZaDiscs.



Here's a video of John Reischman and the Jaybirds together with the Mei Han's Red Chamber performing...




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