Hue Festival 2008 opens tonight

The event will open with a special art and music show at 8pm tonight, June 3, at Ngo Mon Square in Hue city
With the theme “Royal Palace Night Festival”, the opening show will be a mixture of traditional and modern items, of stage art, festival and unique firework performances.

Participating in the opening show will be art troupes from various regions of Vietnam A young singer, Bach Thuy, a first-year student at the Hue Conservatory of Music, will sing the “Dragon and Fairy Song” to open the Royal Palace Night Festival. She will be accompanied by dancers of Hue art schools.

After the “Dragon and Fairy Song”, Hcm City’s Lotus troupe will perform a dance entitled “Angle Wings”. Phu Yen province’s Starfish troupe will introduce boisterous dances to the sounds of the lithophone (ancient musical instrument with 11 slabs of stone). Strange Grass troupe will contribute an item named “Au Lac Lullaby”. Thang Long troupe will give a drum performance.

The opening show will also have Okinawa dances from Japan, fan dances by South Korean artists, silk dances by Chinese artists, stilt dances from Belgium, and folk dances from Russia.

The show will close with a song and dance routine entitled She Will Return Tomorrow by a young voice, Phuong Nhi, a third-year student at the Hue Conservatory of Music.

(Source: TP)

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Hue Festival 2008 opens tonight

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