THE GLOBAL CELLO: ASIAN FIDDLES

South Central Regional Library: Artist-in-Residence Room
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 3-3:45PM

Come hear and see a wide variety of Asian Fiddles in this presentation/demonstration by Jon Silpayamanant. Instruments are from his personal collection which he uses in performances as a solo artist and in the Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble which he founded and directs.

‘Asian Fiddles’ is Free and open to all ages and is part of the Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble’s COLLIDER Residency at the South Central Regional Library and will take place in the Artist-in-Residence Room (No. 7 on this map of the library: www.sawpeep.com/southcentralregionallibrary-floorplan )

Artist-in-Residence Room
South Central Regional Library
7300 Jefferson Blvd.
Louisville, KY 40219
(502) 964-3515
www.lfpl.org/south-central-regional-library

About the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence Program
www.lfpl.org/lifelong-learning#150

About Jon Silpayamanant:
Born in Udon Thani, Thailand Jon Silpayamanant is an intercultural multi-instrumentalist, composer, cellist, and music educator based in the greater Louisville and Kentuckiana area.

As a biracial Thai American with musical families on both sides of the world, he has been navigating musical code switching and bimusicality for much of his life and uses that experience to inform his understanding of how music ecosystems interact, hybridize, and create systems of exclusion.
www.silpayamanant.com

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