Kunleng invites Sonam Tashi, writer/director of ‘Acho Namgyal’, and Dhumkhang Phuntsok Namgyal, a Tibetan classical musician and calligrapher, to discuss the life and music of Acho Namgyal, one of the most well known musicians from the Lhasa of the 1940s, and the genre of Nangma Toeshey, which he took to new heights of innovation and popularity.
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