Rhode Island Dragonboat Races & Taiwan Day Festival

WHEN:  Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
              8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WHERE:  School Street Pier, Tom Healey Way,
                Pawtucket, RI  02860  

 
INFO: 
DragonBoatRI.com
TourBlackstone.com
PawtucketArtsFestival.org  

FEATURING:
Chinese and Taiwan dance, martial arts, traditional crafts.  Food and beverage vendors on site. 

Chinese Dumpling-Eating Contest

This is the first dumpling eating

contest in the United States.

This contest is sponsored by the Taipei

Economic Cultural Office in Boston.  Win $200!

CHAI FOUND MUSIC

Our stage headliner is Chai Found Music,

a Chinese music ensemble from

Taipei/Taiwan. Founded in 1991

by Chengming Huang (erhu) and Huikuan

Lin (pipa) to promote Chinese music

outside of China.

The ensembles of Chai Found Music

Workshop perform traditional

Chinese chamber, or sizhu, music.

A sizhu ensemble consists of 6

musicians playing erhu (Chinese fiddle),

pipa (Chinese lute), yangqin (Chinese

dulcimer), ruan (Chinese guitar or banjo),

guzheng (Chinese zither), and

di (Bamboo flute).

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