This weekend’s San Joaquin County Fair will have the usual enticing assortment of carnival rides, arcade games and calorie-laden edible delights, but it’s going to stand out in at least one breakthrough way: a performance showcasing Stockton’s Cambodian American community.
Rapper Khmer1Jivit and singer Ith Sreypin will take the fairgrounds stage Saturday night in a city so proudly ethnically mixed it’s easy to overlook it has one of the nation’s largest Cambodian American populations.
“We wanted to introduce our culture into the fair,” said Daron Ker, a Cambodian American filmmaker who is producing the pair’s fair appearance. He also produced the Cambodia Day Music and Culture Festival last year in San Francisco’s Union Square, which he estimates drew 10,000 attendees…