August 26, 2011
Traditional music performed in Huong sac Viet Nam The fourth Huong sac Viet Nam (Vietnam’s scent and beauty) will take place in Hanoi on Sept 10 to promote the country’s traditional, folk music and other “specialties” in art and culture. Â The one-night show will feature traditional music of 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam as [...]
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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 23, 2011
US based Vo Van Anh will play the Vietnamese dan tranh in HCMC on Saturday. Two of the world’s greatest dan tranh players will jam out together for the first time at the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Palace Saturday night. Local artist Hai Phuong and Van Anh, a musician based in the US, will [...]
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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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July 2, 2011
Free course seeks to awaken, nurture passion for traditional Vietnamese music Tuyet Mai says was happily surprised and greatly saddened at the same time. “Many foreigners who have come to my house to watch our shows have surprised me with their profound knowledge of Vietnamese folk music and musical instruments,” Mai told Thanh Nien [...]
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June 27, 2011
Artist Tuyet Mai guides a foreign tourist on playing the Vietnamese zither. Free courses of Vietnamese traditional music will be offered by two meritorious artists at Ho Chi Minh City’s Trucmai Music House from July 15. Â Tuyet Mai and her husband Dinh Linh, who founded Trucmai in 2004, said the classes aim to introduce [...]
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June 11, 2011
A Vietnamese traditional music night “Homeland Melody” will take place on June 17 at HCMC Conservatory of Music. The program is rooted in the traditional music culture of Vietnam and consists of many types of music such as folk songs, chamber music, recital, and melodies of traditional music. Tickets can be purchased at HCMC Conservatory of Music 112 Nguyen [...]
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February 23, 2011
American connects with Vietnamese anti-war songs and reconnects two icons Molly Hartman O’Connell performs Vietnam’s red songs in Con duong am nhac (Musical road) program on Ho Chi Minh City Television “Mother of Vietnam, do you know your children have begun the fight?” This was the only part of the song, the chorus, that [...]
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December 25, 2010
Artist Duc Dau performs on Quang Trung war-drums at his house which is a living museum of all kinds of Vietnamese traditional musical instruments. Mention family bands and the Jacksons come to mind first, but not to those who know a “crazy” guy called Duc Dau, born Tran Trong Dau. Dau’s “Phu Dong Family Band” [...]
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January 30, 2010
LookAtVietnam – An exhibition of traditional music instruments from Vietnamese ethnic groups opened in Hanoi on January 29. According to Tu Manh Luong, director of the Vietnam Exhibition Centre, the exhibition is part of activities to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. This [...]
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