have music will travel

[feliciter]

Was cleaning out computer when found an mp3 of a wonderful bluegrass song, Song of the Traveling Daughter, by Abigail Washburn. The lyrics given on her music website are not exactly the same as the recording I have - though there is a highly entertaining Youtube fanvid using the mp3:

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[flemmings]

Being now unfuzzed enough to find and click links, I see that Washburn actually sings in Chinese. Glad to have that straight. It *is* a lovely song, but who's that in the fanvid?

[feliciter]

(Fuzzed? What happened?)

Characters are from Avatar:The Last Airbender - not that I've watched it, but I think the kick-ass ladies are Azula, Mai and Ty Lee of the Fire Kingdom. The only other version that I found was a live recording where the performers seemed to be having an off day D:

Washburn actually sings in Chinese

And composes, too - impressive considering she had picked up the banjo a few years prior to the recording, and studied Chinese only in college.

[flemmings]

(Spring Break, when staff go on vacation with their kids and replacements find themselves with double the usual hours. Hence a week of exhaustion and sleep deprivation.)

Ahh, yes, Airbender. Shall watch that series one of these days.

[feliciter]

(Oh dear. I hope things are more relaxed now. We've just come off the one-week March school holidays in LRD.)

IIRC the live-action movie has received a fair amount of flak for casting predominantly white actors, except for the villain-turned-hero, who is played by guy from Slumdog Millionaire.