Artist Talk: Hua’er Folk Song

Join us for an exploration of each artist’s craft, trajectory and connection to legacy throughout the weekend in this interactive artist talk.

Hua’er is a kind of folk song sung in local Chinese dialects and is a form popular in the northwestern China provinces such as Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. Hua’er is usually sung on two major occasions – “hua’er gatherings” and daily life and production. A “hua’er gathering” is a large-scale folk song gathering, otherwise known as “changshan” (singing mountain songs). The tune of hua’er is called “ling” (a pattern to which the tune is set), which varies according to the inserted words for balance or euphony in the course of singing.

Watch a Hua’er folk song performance on the Redpath Stage, July 12 at 5pm.

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Everyone: FREE

Saturday, July 12, 2014
12:00PM – 12:45PM
Zone 5
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto Ontario

Cairang Zhuoma, Suonan Sunbin, Kong Weifang
Cairang Zhuoma and Suonan Sunbin are an ethnic Tibetan couple from Huangzhong Country and Qinghai Province. Kong Weifant is a Hui singer from Gansu Province. Hua’er is a song genre that is shared among many different ethnicities, and this trio often sing together at informal singing festivals.