World Music and Dance Concert
The University of Kentucky School of Music World Music Ensembles will present the World Music and Dance Concert on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
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.
