Lin Songtao

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ON May 3, the “Multiethnic Children’s Choir in Concert” was staged at Shenzhen Grand Theater. The concert invited children and traditional ethnic music inheritors of the Uygur, Wa and Miao minorities from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to participate. After the show, Wa and Miao minority children toured Hong Kong to have an exchange with Hong Kong Children’s Choir, a local school and Hong Kong citizens.

The events were from a program called “Chanson de Montagne” by the Green Pine Foundation in Shenzhen. It sends teachers to minority-inhabited areas to establish children’s choirs each year, promoting ethnic culture. Since 2019, children from 12 minorities have held various shows in Shenzhen.

This year, the foundation invited an Ecuadorian musician to Yunnan to experience Wa ethnic music culture and perform on stage with children.