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National tài tử music festival set for April

Wide appeal: Miss Viet Nam 2016 Do My Linh and child singer Bao Ngoc are this year’s representatives of the second National Tai Tu Music Festival in Binh Duong from April 8-12. VNA/VNS Photo
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HCM CITY — The second National Tai Tu Music Festival will take place in Binh Duong New City in in the southern province of Binh Duong from April 8-12.

Speaking at a press conference in HCM City yesterday, Huynh Vinh Ai, deputy minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said: “Tai tu music has a wide appeal to people in not only southern but also northern provinces. So, the festival will contribute to raising people’s awareness about the need to preserve and promote a national cultural heritage.”

The event is co-organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the provincial People’s Committee.

Ai said that the State had recently recognised 70 performers and researchers as meritorious artisans in the field of tai tu music, all of whom will participate in the event.

The organisers have invited Miss Viet Nam 2016 Do My Linh and child singer Bao Ngoc, whose parents are traditional artists, to become the festival’s representatives.

Huynh Ngoc Dang, director of Binh Duong’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said at the conference that Linh and Ngoc would help attract young people to the festival, particularly to tai tu music.

The five-day festival will open with a special performance attracting hundreds of artists from arts troupes in 21 provinces in the southeast and Mekong Delta regions.

Directed by veteran composer Dinh Trung Can, the show will begin on 8pm on April 8 at the square in front of the Binh Duong Central Administration Building.

The organisers will set up stalls to introduce activities promoting tai tu music in 21 provinces and tourism products related to the arts form.

An exhibition, workshop and song-composing contest will also be held during the festival.

Tai tu music is the prototype for vong co (nostalgial tunes) and cai luong (reformed opera) of southern Viet Nam. It is part of the region’s traditional music that began about 100 years ago.

The music is always performed at traditional festivals, weddings and death anniversaries in the Mekong River Delta provinces of Can Tho, Soc Trang, Ca Mau and Bac Lieu.

Musicians play traditional instruments, including the two-stringed guitar called the dan kim, and are accompanied by singers who express varying emotions.

In 2013, the music was recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

The first National Tai Tu Music Festival was held in Bac Lieu Province in 2014. The six-day event attracted more than 20,000 local and foreign visitors.

The ministry confirmed the third festival will be hosted by Can Tho City. — VNS

 

 


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