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Speaker 1: What do you get when you combine traditional American roots

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Speaker 1: in Chinese folk music? For Kathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and

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Speaker 1: Chau Tsian, it's a successful band. It all started when

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Speaker 1: they posted a video of an arrangement of traditional songs

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Speaker 1: merged together and posted it on Fink's TikTok.

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Speaker 2: One afternoon, We're sitting around the kitchen table, will we

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Speaker 2: create that arrangement? Chow Bob gets it on her phone.

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Speaker 2: I go downstairs and post it up on TikTok And

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Speaker 2: the next day it's got half a million views, and

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Speaker 2: we're like, what how did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Millions of views later, and from China to Appalachia is

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Speaker 1: playing shows all around the country and bringing it a

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Speaker 1: young fan base thanks to their viral success during a

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Speaker 1: time when there's near constant tension between the US and

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Speaker 1: Chinese governments. Marxer says their band has been a unifying

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Speaker 1: force that we're all the same deep down.

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Speaker 3: Worlds combine in American traditional music, and so this just

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Speaker 3: continues that combination.

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Speaker 1: They play a show in Cambridge Friday night before heading

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Speaker 1: to the Cave if the snow allows it. From Arlington,

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Speaker 1: Kyle bra WBZ Boston's news radio