Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble

Kentuckiana based Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble performs intercultural music, dance, and puppetry from South and Southeast Asia, the Silk Road, and Central Asia. The group has been featured performers on WUOL’s New Lens concert series, was awarded a Fund For the Arts Community Mini-Grant for its Hanuman Shadow Puppet performance, and has been featured as performers at Asian themed events and festivals like the Louisville Orchestra’s Lunar New Year event, the Crane House’s Asian Night Markets, the Louisville Filipino American Festival, and After Hours at the Speed Museum.

Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble was founded and is directed by Jon Silpayamanant, an intercultural multi-instrumentalist, composer, music educator and researcher. The name, Saw Peep (ซอปี๊บ), is from a type of bowed fiddle made of a large metal can in the Isan region in Northeast Thailand where artistic director, Jon Silpayamanant, was born.