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.
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.
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.
