A traditional Vietnamese tug-of-war folk game was added to UNESCO''s list
of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity icons yesterday, along with
three other Asian countries with a similar tradition.
Research on southern folk music (don ca tai tu) by a
teacher from Long An Province, Vo Truong Ky, won the Viet Nam Folk Arts
and Letters Association''s highest award this year.
A night of Vietnamese folk music featuring ca tru (ceremonial singing), cheo (popular theatre), chau van (spiritual singing) and xam (blind buskers'' singing) will take place in Ha Noi on January 6.
Viet Nam Book of Records has recognised a giant artificial musical
instrument and a cultural theatre in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta
province of Bac Lieu as the country''s latest records.
Prof. Tran Van Khe, the greatest master of traditional Vietnamese music,
to talk to Culture Vulture about the future of Don ca tai tu, which was
listed early this month as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
by UNESCO. Khe said the UN...
