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The millennium-old northern folk music genre of Ca tru is making a comeback after decades of neglect, with more and more young girls training to become dao nuong, or professional singers. The music is said to have originated in Hanoi during the Ly Dynasty era around 1,000 years ago, mainly to entertain the royal court [...]
During spring each year, an old village patriarch Vo Lang from Hong Kim Commune of A Luoi District in Thua Thien-Hue Province can be seen repairing or making a khen be, a traditional music instrument of the Ta Oi ethnic minority community. Village patriarch Vo Lang making a khen be from a la tree. (Photo: Sggp) [...]
The annual traditional Lim Festival which opens this week in northern Bac Ninh Province will receive a record number of Quan Ho singers gathering for its traditional Quan Ho performances. More than 2,000 singers will be present at the festival, wearing distinctive traditional costumes and singing Quan Ho, a Vietnamese folk music style originated in [...]
Northern Vietnam’s traditional Xoan Singing will officially become one of UNESCO’s intangible heritages this month after its dossier was submitted to the intergovernmental agency for recognition last April. At a cultural event titled “Back to The Lands of Traditional Festival” to be held from February 18 to promote the tourism potential of the three northern [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]