The opening ceremony of the 2023 Mekong Delta Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo Festival opened at the Memorial House of the art of Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo and late composer Cao Van Lau in Bac Lieu City in the Mekong Delta province of the same name on December 14....

The third Ca Mau Southern Folk Cake Festival 2023 themed “The Southern Flavor” opened in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau on April 26....

A festival featuring a variety of traditional dishes typical of southern Vietnam will open on Friday in Can Tho, the largest city in the Mekong Delta region....

Theatre of Vietnam comprises many traditional forms of drama which survive and retain their popularity to varying degrees....

Traditional theaters play an important role in Vietnamese culture. Despite the rapid development of contemporary art genres and the entertainment industry in Vietnam, traditional theaters continue to inspire both Vietnamese and foreign audience....

The 2016 Hue festival, themed “the 710th anniversary of Thuan Hoa - Phu Xuan – Thua Thien Hue, Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development”, will open coinciding with Reunification Day on April 30....

Since Vietnam opens on outside, of many foreign tourists arrive to Vietnam. The musical life starts to take a new dimension. Hotels, restaurants for tourists engage of the musicians of traditional music to divert the new customers....

The traditional music was always a poor relation compared to auters occidentalized musics. Before April 1975, with the National Academy of the music with Saigon, the classes of traditional instruments and arts traditional did not attract large world. The professors of traditional music had the......

Professor Tran Van Khe, the grand old master of Vietnamese traditional music passed away on June 24 in Gia Dinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City at the ripe old age of 94....

Alexander M. Cannon, a young American music professor, has been researching about don ca tai tu (a traditional southern Vietnamese music genre) in HCM City....

Music professor Tran Quang Hai has returned to Viet Nam to attend the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) and to hand over his entire collection of research on traditional Vietnamese music to the Viet Nam Institute for Musicology. He talks with Do Minh....

Alexander M. Cannon, a young American music professor, has been researching about don ca tai tu (a traditional southern Vietnamese music genre) in HCM City....

Cai luong is known as the traditional arts of singing and performing. The harmonious combination between the music band and the singers gives extremely good performance, and in some cases, the music band guides the singers to move along with the music and sing. Therefore, the singers seldom sing......

“Đờn ca tài tử “is a fading genre of folk music which developed and spread mainly in the south of Vietnam during the last century....

2014 was an unforgettable year for Don Ca Tai Tu Nam Bo (southern amateur traditional music) as it was officially recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 8th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage being held in Baku,......

After learning that the Hoa Binh Theater is going to have a liveshow for NSUT Ut Bach Lan , I decided to pay her a visit. Her small house on Tran Hung Dao Street looks the same – still the lonely hammock where she usually sits to study her lines and the Buddha altar with incense burning. Ms. Ut is......

Tran Quang Hai is a talented musical scholar, who lives in France and has given more than 3,000 concerts in 65 countries worldwide. Together with his father, renowned Professor Dr Tran Van Khe, and his wife, famous singer Bach Yen, he has been contributing to the research, promotion and honouring of......

The following three singers, each of whom is Vietnamese traditional music performer, one after another, brightened up and beautified the already popular theatrical arts of Cai Luong (Southern traditional folk plays). Three different characters, three singing voices, three completely different......