Coreyah – Seoul Folks
Friday, November 11, 2016 at 8PM
Flushing Town Hall
(137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing NY 11354)
Tickets: $16/$10 Students
Members
Kweon, Ashin (Vocals)
Kim, Dong-Kun (Daegeum, Sogeum, Tungso)
Jeong, Halee (Geomungo, Yanggeum)
Kim, Cho-Rong (Percussion)
Kyungyi (Percussion)
Park, Sangheum (Guitar)
“Mesmerising and wonderful”
★★★★★ Broadway Baby
“Exotic and strangely familiar”
★★★★ Herald Scotland
“Infectious...a beautifully layered sound”
★★★★ ThreeWeeks
Coreyah’s unique, freewheeling, polystylistic vision of Korean traditional music charts an adventurous course where pansori (a traditional Korean style of narrative song) comes face to face with Tom Waits, and sinawi (Korean traditional musical improvisation) meets Simon and Garfunkel. At first glance, you’d think this sextet would be more comfortable doing gigs at hip rock clubs rather than performing traditional Korean folk songs, but out come the Tungso bamboo flute, Geomungo zither, and Janggo drum and, as they say in New Orleans, laissez le bon temps rouler.
The name of the group, the Sino-Korean homonym Co – Re – Yah, refers to inheritance of the past, but now serves to draw living modern people toward more attractive music using old music elements. Translated into Hangul, (the Korean alphabet), Coreyah also means “whale”—the group’s totem animal and good luck charm.
For more information and to purchase ticket, please visit http://www.flushingtownhall.org/event/2af42565af0715e6ac3312b8f2545f31 or call (718) 463-7700 x222.