Rocking out to 'Edelweiss' at N. Korea's first foreign gig
With a 45-minute set that included cover versions of "Edelweiss" and "Do-Re-Mi" from the "Sound of Music", the avant-garde Slovenian group Laibach on Wednesday became the first foreign rock band to play a gig in North Korea. Foreigners who attended the evening concert in Pyongyang said the Slovenian rockers were accorded a warm, if slightly muted, reception by the 1,500-capacity crowd at the capital's Ponghwa Arts Theatre. It wasn't an audience pulling faces of distrust or confusion," said Simon
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