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Yat Sing Music Club (一聲音樂社)

Old Town / Chinatown·Portland·United Statesest. 1942

One of Portland's longest-running Chinatown community groups. Founded in 1942 by Chinese immigrants to raise wartime relief funds for China, the club still rehearses Cantonese opera twice a week in Old Town and performs for the Portland Chinatown Museum and civic festivals.

More than 80 years of continuous rehearsal. Featured by Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Oregon Culture Keepers roster as a living archive of Pacific Northwest Cantonese opera.

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