UK World Music Concert: Balinese Gamelan 10th Anniversary

Presented by the University of Kentucky School of Music World Music Ensembles.

This concert will highlight the university’s world music groups, the UK Balinese Gamelan Angklung Langen Kerti Ensemble. 

A Balinese gamelan ensemble is a traditional percussion ensemble from Indonesia. The UK Balinese Gamelan Ensemble features the four-pitched gamelan angklung from Bali, and includes various large and medium bronze gongs, keyed xylophones of various sizes, drums, suling flutes and other percussion instruments like the distinctive turtle-shaped ceng ceng. Balinese gamelan is known for its shimmering, metallic sound and fast interlocking patterns called “kotekan.