Article: Tradition the focus of this year's Water Festival.

Byline: Michael Lafleur

Jul. 2--LOWELL -- This summer's 10th annual rendition of the Southeast Asian Water Festival will feature a greater emphasis on traditional Southeast Asian arts, crafts and music than past years. Sayon Soeun, president of the Southeast Asian Water Festival Inc., said this year's festival will feature more traditional craftsmen, as well as demonstrations by traditional instrument-makers whose wares -- a stringed piano called a kim that is struck with bamboo mallets, bamboo flutes and xylophones made from rosewood or bamboo -- will be on sale as well. "We have a lack in traditional arts and crafts," he said. "We always had merchandise at ...

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