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Concerts, entitled “I Love Sharing”, will take place at the Bat Giac House, in the Ly Thai To Flower Garden, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, for one year, from November, 2011 to December 2012. This is an outdoor activity which is organised by the Vietnam National Academy of Music to spread music to local people, improve [...]
Come rain or shine, veteran ca Hue artist Minh Man gropes her way to the Nguyen Thi Loi Ca Hue Club in the former imperial city of Hue every Saturday to share her knowledge of the art to fellow club members. Job-in-hand: “Folklore Artisan” Minh Man shares her knowledge of traditional music with young [...]
HCMC’s Student Cultural House will hold a Vietnamese traditional music program this weekend. Titled “Traditional Music Exchange Program”, the event will feature performances of well-known local artists including dan tranh (sixteen stringed zither) artist Hai Phuong, Outstanding Artist couple Dinh Linh and Tuyet Mai, the traditional music band from the HCMC Conservatory of Music, Phu [...]
Bach Tuyet, a well known artist of cai luong, or southern folk opera, is inspiring young Vietnamese with her cai luong course at HCMC-based Tran Huu Trang Theater. Though the course’s enrollment has dropped from 25 to 20 after 4 semesters, Bach Tuyet said it still showed young people did care about the traditional art. [...]
Tran Van Khe, renowned Vietnamese music professor has proposed the Southern Vietnamese folk music be included on every school curricula during a meeting held to discuss ways to promote and preserve the traditional form of art. “The government should bring traditional folk music to schools. It’s necessary for students to deeply understand our traditional music [...]
Many may think that young people today are only interested in modern pop music and turn away from traditional Vietnamese music, however, when watching and listening to students who are passionate about learning Ca Tru (traditional ceremonial singing) at the Hanoi Ca tru club, one can feel the vitality of this world intangible cultural heritage. [...]
The Cham ethnic community are celebrating their annual Kate Festival at their Po Sah Inư Temple in the central coastal city of Phan Thiet in Binh Thuan Province from September 24 to 26. (File) Costumes of the Po Sah Inu Goddess being carried on a palanquin. An estimated 20,000 residents and visitors will be attending [...]
The audience of about 20 sit in rapt silence, their eyes glued to the female soloist. The strains of traditional ca tru (chamber) music reverberate around the dimly lit prayer hall in Quan De Temple. Only the stage is illuminated, which at the beginning of the performance is separated from the audience by a bamboo [...]
The Vietnamese Institute of Musicology proposed a VND3.5 billion ($170,000) plan to preserve ca tru, a Vietnamese traditional music genre, at a meeting in Hanoi yesterday. Under the plan, the institute will publish two CD-book collections of ca tru songs and organize classes in major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hai [...]
Every night at 7pm there is a performance of Ca Tru (ceremonial song) at the traditional house located at 87 Ma May Street. The performance offers a chance for both locals and tourists alike to hear a type of traditional Vietnamese music which rarely played anymore. Ca Tru was recognised by UNESCO, in October of [...]