November 16, 2011
American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]
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September 3, 2011
Universal Music and Sony Music, two world leading record companies, will distribute hit songs to Vietnamese music lovers through NCT Corporation’s website nhaccuatui.com, thanks to an agreement signed August 30 in Ho Chi Minh City. Music fans in Vietnam can now listen first hand to all audio and video owned by Universal Music and [...]
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July 31, 2011
Hanoi-born artist unafraid to take traditional instrument to new spaces Vo Van Anh playing the dan tranh at a concert in Ho Chi Minh City last week. The San Francisco based artist said her biggest desire was to introduce the traditional zither to world friends and the young Vietnamese. Every time she takes the [...]
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July 15, 2011
Viet kieu from France presents Vietnamese music with a jazzy twist Nguyen Le performs in the Que nha program in Hanoi this week French jazz guitarist Nguyen Le does not speak any Vietnamese, but Vietnam haunts him almost all the time. He remembers that during the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) in 1994, he [...]
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June 19, 2011
Dubbed a “living cultural treasure,” one man is a repository of music, dance and martial arts of the ethnic minority community of Hmong people in the northern province of Lao Cai  Ly Seo Ho performs a piece of Hmong’s martial arts in front of his house in Ban Pho Commune, Lao Cai Province [...]
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June 12, 2011
British artish Lee Kirby is bringing his music to the streets of Vietnam, starting July 15 in Hanoi. Kirby became popular in Vietnam when he posted videos of himself singing songs by the late Trinh Cong Son and others on YouTube back in 2009. Now, Kirby is coming to the country to perform on [...]
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May 14, 2011
Europe has few reasons for cheer at the moment, but tens of millions of people across the continent and beyond will Saturday let their hair down for the pop extravaganza that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Europe has few reasons for cheer at the moment, but tens of millions of people across the continent and [...]
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May 8, 2011
The quartet Camkytiwa, Huong Thanh (1), Etsuko Chida (2), E’Joung Ju (3), Yan Li (4). Camkytiwa will hold its first concert in Vietnam on May 14. The all-female Asian Quartet will bring traditional fusion to the stage of the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music. Renowned Vietnamese-French jazz vocalist, Huong Thanh, will lead [...]
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March 25, 2011
 People get crowded at the Seal Opening ritual held last month in the northern province of Nam Dinh For thousands of years, villages all over Vietnam have held cultural festivals, following the Lunar New Year. Many of the festivals are not only unique to Vietnam, but they are also unique to each village. [...]
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February 28, 2011
Poster of the contest. The annual “Concours” contest held by the Institute for Cultural Exchange with France (Idecaf) will be held from the end of this month to the end of April. With its focus on contemporary French and Vietnamese songs, this year’s Concours Idecaf this year is held for local youth (aged 18 – [...]
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