A week-long festival of traditional musical instruments is being held
from today until next Monday in Da Lat City in the Tay Nguyen (Central
Highlands) Province of Lam Dong.
The Friends of Viet Nam Heritage (FVH) will host a concert featuring
Viet Nam''s best performers of traditional music tonight. The performance
will showcase several award-winning musicians along with commentary on
their music and instruments.
An Giang Province''s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the
Committee for Ethnic Minority has gifted to local Khmer pagodas 20 sets
of Khmer traditional musical instruments used in pinpeat ensembles
played in pagodas.
Danish artist Lotte Anker, a prominent musician and improviser, will
perform this Saturday with local musicians in a show that combines
traditional Vietnamese instruments and Western electronics.
My father''s Australian friend recently sent him an
email to inform him that he would be visiting Viet Nam in early March,
and expressed a desire to tour a craft village outside Ha Noi.
Alang Vel''s musical instruments on display in his
house in the remote village of TaLang in Quang Nam Province show his
love for the traditional music of the Co Tu ethnic group.
Three national records including the first
collection of traditional music instruments made with materials from the
coconut palm were set in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Ben
Tre.
Experts from the Korean National Centre of
Traditional Performance and Art will work with Vietnamese experts to
restore the proper sound to Hue''s old musical instruments.
