Erhu Ensemble playing Sai Ma

[paulv]

Happy Chinese New Year!

Found this video of Shaanxi celebrating the New Year with various performers singing.

Check out the young lady playing SaiMa at 1:18:17 into the video - it's great.


Many Erhus playing SaiMa

Haven't posted here in a very long time - hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.

Warmest wishes,

Paul...

PS: David, glad to see you're keeping the forum going -- thx for all your efforts thru the years.

[davidmdahl]

Feb 13, 2021 2:37:04 GMT paulv said:

Happy Chinese New Year!

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PS: David, glad to see you're keeping the forum going -- thx for all your efforts thru the years.

Thanks, Paul. I am feeling a bit guilty for not participating so much over the past year. I lost my wife of 29 years last February, and it took a lot of wind out of my sails. Of course, with the pandemic, there were no more rehearsals or performances in my area. I have not played erhu much over the past year, and only got going on the Vietnamese music again for a Tet gig on dan bau via Zoom on Feb 14.

I am glad to see some activity on this forum, but myself have only been doing admin work. I am trying to keep the spam off the boards, and not make people wait too long for approval. My apologies for those who had to wait. It seems that whenever I think about turning off the approval requirement for new members, someone spams us. So, that is going to stay.

I appreciate all who participate in this forum!

Happy New Year!

Best wishes,
David

[ed]

David, you have my thanks too. Thank you. I have seen you being so welcoming to new members and so attentive to everyone's problems. I am really sorry to hear about your wife, it must be very hard.

Regards

Ed H