Set at ChangChui, it runs for five days with a loose mix of music, water and nostalgia that feels knowingly over the top. The ...

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Sayan Sanya, one of the most famous luk thung stars, died of liver cancer and other ailments at Thonburi Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. He was 60 years old. Religious rites for the Thai country ...

Famed Thai folk vocalist Prachuap Champathong, owner of the popular Kuan Im line of facial-cream products, died of lung cancer on Tuesday afternoon. He was 74. Prachuap died at Bangkok Hospital at 2pm ...

Bangkok: Thai luk thung and mor lam singer Chayada Prao-hom tragically passed away on Sunday (December 8), following complications linked to multiple massage sessions. The 20-year-old artist from Udon ...

Thai PBS held a fun event to celebrate Teacher's Day "Saraphan Lan Thung" or The Sonic Luk Thung Variety Show at the TV station's main compound last Wednesday. World Beat was there to enjoy the ...

The Thai music known as luk thung (son of the field) is difficult to define because it borrows from everywhere and evolves over time. To the ear, however, it is unmistakable. That's a result of its ...

Taking after age-old oral tradition, luk thung - Thai country music - has always been able to encapsulate the moods of an era, trends of certain times and mass celebrations or social ills of any given ...

Pongsri Woranuch, the first "Queen of Luk Thung" (Thai country music) and a National Artist in the Performing Arts (folk singing), died peacefully on Sunday at the age of 85. Her death marks the loss ...

As decisive a summation as the first volume of Soundway’s Sound Of Siam series seemed to be, this second volume offers essential deeper insight into what, with hindsight, seems to have been Southeast ...