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Holding a ty ba (traditional four-stringed guitar) delicately in his hands like an angel with a harp, Swedish artist Stefan Ostersjo slowly turns his body in an elegant female fashion. Glass of their own: Artists perform at the installation performance Inside/Outside, which offers a closer look at traditional Vietnamese music from a gender point of [...]
The fifth annual show of Vietnam’s traditional music and martial arts entitled “Mother and Sea” took place in the French city of Orsay on November 11. Held by the Vietnamese – Orsay Traditional Cultural and Music Association (OCTAVE), the event attracted hundreds of overseas Vietnamese and French participants. Participants enjoyed performances of traditional musical instruments, [...]
An open-air concert at the Japan Foundation on October 19 will feature a combination of modern and traditional music, especially Jew’s harp. The concert will be performed by Jew’s harp artist Duc Minh, zither artist Tra My and DJs Tri Minh and Sebastien Gesell. It will begin with the sounds of Jew’s harp and a [...]
An open air concert featuring a combination of traditional Vietnamese music and electronic music will take place on Friday, October 19, in Hanoi. It’s the second act of the JF Garage Concert series organized by the Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam. The concert will feature of performances by DJ Tri Minh, one of [...]
A Xam folk music performance will be held in Vietnam Women’s Museum on October 26-28. Xam singing is long-standing folk gentre from northern Vietnam with the two major genres of Xam cho (Xam singing performed at markets) and Xam co dau (performed in groups at drinking establishments). Only Hanoi had Xam tau dien, and it was particular well known for being performed on the [...]
The Centre for Research, Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Music (CRPPTM) held a symposium entitled ‘Traditional music in today’s life’ in Hanoi on October 23. Addressing the event, former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu said that folk art, such as Tuong (classical drama), Cheo(traditional opera) and Cai Luong (reformed theatre), is an indispensable part of the Vietnamese people’s [...]
Preserving traditional music should start from education, said participants in a symposium on the effects of traditional music to human life today, which was held in Hanoi. They confirmed traditional music as an indispensable part of Vietnam’s culture. However, it is losing its identity on account of strange genres of music and. Even [...]
The music performance enjoy and happy with mid – autumn organized at Marine Plaza trade and business center at 18:30pm on September 30th with a variety of interesting activities such as: traditional game, art show will brings to children a full of laughter Mid-Autumn festival. Mid-Autumn is a meaningful traditional culture. This is an opportunity [...]
Theatres hosting traditional art performances are seeking help from local authorities and have asked travel agencies to promote their shows among tourists. Despite the warm welcome from many foreign tourists, the Hon Viet (The Soul of Viet Nam) traditional folk music show is suffering huge losses because ticket sales cannot cover expenditures. The 60-minute show, [...]
Musicians from Ha Noi, Hue, HCM City and Tokyo will participate in the third annual Zither Festival in HCM City this week. Zitherists will perform traditional music at the four-day festival. Several exhibitions and talks by music professors. including musicologist Tran Van Khe, will be held. Khe spent years researching the zither, a traditional multi-stringed [...]