Showing posts with label Music festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music festival. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

European Music Festival returns

Members of the Tharichens Tentett jazz band from Germany
The European Music Festival returns to HCMC and Hanoi from November 26 to December 4 to celebrate 20 years of diplomatic relations between the EU and Vietnam.

The music festival will make its come-back with a remarkably diverse line-up of concerts with the pop night by El Guincho from Spain and a jazz night with the 10 piece German jazz band, Tharichen Tentett.

The festival is organized by the European Commission Delegation to Vietnam and the embassies of 10 European Union member states, including Wallonia-Brussels (Belgium), France, Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.

The festival will be staging jazz, classical, world music, pop, electronic music, fusion of jazz and flamenco, graceful piano pieces and warm tones of the harp. The jazz night by Tharichens Tentett will be at Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street in Hanoi on November 26 and the pop night by El Guincho will be at the Youth Theater,11 Ngo Thi Nham Street in Hanoi on November 27 and at the HCMC Opera House in November 28.

All performances start at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale in Hanoi at the Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, tel: 04 3734 2251 and in HCMC at Do Thanh Apartment at 18, Street No.1, HCMC’s District 3.

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Nation to enjoy musical feast

hcmc conservatory of music
Photo: Tuoi Tre

Free musical shows will be held in 15 cities and provinces to celebrate Vietnam's Day of Music on Friday.

The Vietnam Symphony Orchestra together with pop singers Hong Nhung and Dang Duong and musicians from the Vietnam Academy of Music will begin the festival at Hanoi 's Friendship and Culture Palace, Tran Hung Dao Street, at 2pm on Friday.

Vietnam Television's VTV1 will live telecast the show.

Children music and folk music shows will be held in Hanoi's Vietnam Pop Music Theatre; the Ly Thai To Garden and the pedestrianized area near Dong Xuan Market from Thursday to next Monday.

Similar shows will be held in northern Yen Bai, Son La and Thai Nguyen provinces; central Thua Thien-Hue, Danang, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong provinces; and southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Can Tho and Hau Giang provinces and Ho Chi Minh City.

Entry to all the shows is free.

"The Day of Music will be a festival of both professional artists and public music lovers," said Vietnam Musicians' Association Chairman Do Hong Quan.

"We would like to bring music closer to the people and this year's events may become a music week or music month with various street performances."

September 3 has been made the yearly National Day of Music after President Ho Chi Minh conducted an orchestra of professional artists and ordinary people in a performance of Ket Doan (Song of Solidarity) at Hanoi's Botanic Garden on September 3, 1960.

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