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I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in this edition, the trio trying to ease international tensions with a musical

collaboration. We are all hoping from this fusion to sending some messages to the world. Bringing us

together for the things we have in common as opposed to picking apart the things that we don't.

Also, the kindness of the community is immense really, so that they can enter that room like everyone else with their head out high, with dignity.

The fairy godmother making sure everyone can go to the ball and why a musical first meant so much to fans.

When they come to us and step onto stages in our countries,

it gives us a really a sense of belonging to this global K-Pop community.

We begin with three women trying to ease the tensions between their two countries through folk music.

We're going to hold each other up, we're going to lift each other high, we're going to love each other better than before.

Hold each other up as part of the album from China to Appalachia, a collaboration between the American

folk duo, Kathy Fink and Marcy Marksar, and Chao Bob Tian, a musician and singer from Beijing.

Well, all the tracks are a fusion of traditional Chinese music and folk from the Appalachian Mountains.

So could music be the key to mending China-U.S.

relations? The trio with Kathy on the five-string banjo, Marcy on the cello banjo, and Chow Bob on the

Chinese hammered dulcimer, or Yang Quinn, spoke to the happy pods, Harry Bly.

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