Musicians Coline Waters and Remy Lobbos will perform to open the European Music Festival in Hanoi on November 18 (Photo: eumusicfest.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The EuropeanMusic Festival will return to Hanoi and Ho ⛦Chi Minh City featuringinternational and Vietnamese musicians from November 18 to 30.
The musiciansare from Wallonie Bruxelles; Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Franceand Vietnamese who will bring different genres to the festival.
From WallonieBruxelles, Atome will open the festival at the Vietnam Youth Theatre on November 18. Established in 2016, Atome is a French-singing electro-pop band with five members. Only singer and keyboard player Coline Waters and guitarist andvocal Remy Lobbos will perform at the concert in Hanoi.
Hungarian bandTerek Jozsef and His Friends will bring and introduce 'tarogato' to localaudiences, which is a woodwind instrument normally used in Hungarian folkmusic, in HCM City on November 19 and in Hanoi on November 20.
On November21, a show in Hanoi by Italiangroup Mezzotono will feature the five members performing without any musicalinstruments. Instead, they will use their voices toimitate the sound of instruments and use a comical approach to encourage theaudience to get involved.
Award-winningsinger/songwriter Nani from the Netherlands will perform jazz in shows in HCMCity and in Hanoi on November 21and 23. She recently won the SENA Performers Award 2019 NL and theACE Premiere Award 2019 UK. Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits wওill bring her her fresh style to Hanoi on November 21 and HCM City on November 24.
On November 27 and 29, German band Ensemble Phoenix Munich will be ledby art director Joel Frederiksen. Six instrumentalists will be accompanied by soprano Julla vonLandsberg. The shows including 17 pieces among them works of Schützand Monteverdi will take place in HCM on November 27 and in Hanoi on November 29.
The festival will close with a performance by French and Vietnamesemusicians. Entitled Lettres De Hanoi (Letters from Hanoi), the multimedia concert will feature the latest pieces composed by Luong Hue Trinh and Jean-David Caillouët. Artists Nguyen Xuan Son, Nguyen Min🌳h Tam, PabloTognan and Doan Thanh Binh will also perform.
The shows will be held at Vietnam YouthTheatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street from November 18 to 30 andat HCM Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du Streetfrom November 19 to 28. Free tickets can be registered for at website eumusicfest.vn./.
American conductor Christopher Zimmerman, music director of Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in the US, will lead a concert of classical music at the HCM City Opera House on October 26.
The Ho Chi Minh City International Music Festival 2019 (HOZO 2019) will take place at the Nguyen Hue pedestrian streets and the Hoa Lu Stadium, District 1, HCM City on December 13-15, according to the municipal Department of Culture and Sports.
The Vietnamese team will gather on June 26 in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, where they will train until July 14 before departing for Indonesia for the ASEAN U23 Championship 2025, which runs from July 15 to 29. Vietnam will face Laos on July 19 and Cambodia on July 22 in the group stage.
The exhibition showcases more than 100 valuable documents and artifacts, divided into two main parts: “Journalist Nguyen Ai Quoc – Ho Chi Minh” and “President Ho Chi Minh – Founder and Mentor of Vietnamese Revolutionary Press.” This is an opportunity to recall the late leader’s journalism journey and affirm his exceptional role in founding and guiding the revolutionary press in Vietnam.
For the first time, the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) has granted Vietnam hosting rights for the two championships, including the Asian women’s solo category, which debuts this year as an officially recognised event.
Eight teams will join the tournament, divided into two groups. Group A features Vietnam, the Philippines, Sichuan Club (China), and Australia, while Group B consists of Vietnam U21, Korabelka Club (Russia), Taiwan (China), and U21 Thailand.
Despite strong home support and high expectations, Vietnam were unable to overcome the defending champions, who secured their third consecutive win over Vietnam in a regional final, following previous victories in 2014 and 2023.
The event, part of Vietnam’s cultural diplomacy strategy through 2030, was jointly organised by the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and USM’s Faculty of International Relations. It attracted thousands of students from universities across Venezuela.
For the first time, Vietnamese audiences will have the opportunity to experience the ballet masterpiece "Don Quixote" in its original version by renowned choreographer Marius Petipa.
The contest carried deep meaning as it was the first time the life of Vietnamese women abroad had been highlighted as the central theme, said poet and writer Nguyen Quang Thieu, Chairman of the Vietnam Writers’ Association.
The event formed part of Vietnam’s ongoing campaign to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the complex at the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, scheduled to take place in Paris in July.
Creative cultural festivals are fast emerging as a new catalyst for tourism development in Vietnam, as localities increasingly invest in these vibrant events on a more systematic and larger scale.
This marks the first time Vietnam has hosted a continental-level Muay event which will feature competitions across 28 weight categories in combat and eight performance categories.
Coming to the Vietnamese booth, visitors had the chance to take part in a bamboo dance, a workshop on painting woven bamboo or rattan, or quizzes about Vietnam.
These are impressive achievements, not only showing the efforts and prowess of Vietnamese paddlers but also serving as proof of the sports sector’s strategic and systematic investment.
The cultural event in Canberra not only fostered cultural exchanges between Vietnam and Australia but also contributed to promoting Vietnam’s image internationally
The U23 competition will run from June 16 to 22, followed by the U17 event from June 23 to 28, while athletes competing in the U23 category will undergo weight and skill checks ahead of the matches starting June 18, while similar checks for U17 athletes will take place before June 23.
Vietnam continues to sit just behind continental powerhouses Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Musicians Coline Waters and Remy Lobbos will perform to open the European Music Festival in Hanoi on November 18 (Photo: eumusicfest.vn) 
