BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The maritime monitoring vessel Yuanwang-5 has arrived at its designated area in the Pacific Ocean to track the upcoming space journey of the Tiangong-2 space lab.
China will launch its Tiangong-2 space lab from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi desert at 10:04 p.m. Thursday, the most recent stage in its increasingly ambitious space program, the aim of which is a manned space station by around 2022.
Kirk Kenney shows audience how to square dance at a show. Photo: Courtesy of Kirk Kenney
When Kirk Kenney Wholesale New York Islanders Jerseys , co-founder of folk band Mountain High, was a teenager, China wasn't even a blip on his radar. He grew up in a sheltered suburb of St. Petersburg, Florida, spending most of his time watching television.
Last week, he played two packed shows at the National Center of the Performing Arts in Beijing Wholesale New Jersey Devils Jerseys , speaking to the crowd in fluent Chinese, and joyfully performed traditional music with some of the most talented folk musicians in China.
Kenney traces the story back to when he was just 16 years old and feeling bored with life.
"I had just been playing guitar for a year, and it was the first thing I ever cared about learning," said Kenney. There were a lot of things he wanted to see and understand, but none of them overlapped with what he was learning.
One day, he was driving around a lake listening to music with an old friend Wholesale Nashville Predators Jerseys , who put on the soundtrack to Genghis Blues, a film about a blues musician who discovers the ancient art of Tuvan throat singing. What he heard blew him away.
"This subverted my sense of what music could be. This was someone using their body in a way no one around here does," he said.
This particular style of singing works by compressing the throat, chest and stomach