Vietnamese Folk Music Fest
The ‘Folk Music Night’ featuring popular Vietnamese and Sri Lankan folk artistes will come alive at the Russian Cultural Centre, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7 on Wednesday, 5 September from 6.00 to 8.00pm.
Bich Ngoc and Ha Thu are two Vietnamese folk artistes, who will for the first time perform a special folk music show along with Sri Lanka’s very own Anthony Surendra of band ‘Shakthi’ fame and Mohomed Iqbal of ‘Guitar Club’.
Bich Ngoc graduated from Hanoi College for Traditional Music Instruments with specialization on Dan Bau (one-string instrument) and is now following higher degree in Vietnam National Music Academy.
Ha Thu graduated from Hanoi Art College with specialization on Tam Thap Luc (36 brass string instrument). She is now studying in Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
During the coming show in Sri Lanka, Bich Ngoc and Ha Thu will introduce 3 Vietnamese traditional music instruments, namely T’rung, Dan Bau and Tam Thap Luc.
The T’rung is a traditional Vietnamese instrument, which has origin in the Central Highland of Vietnam. It is made of bamboo trees, which can be found everywhere in Vietnam. The T’rung contains 12-16 bamboo tubes with different sizes from big to small and from long to short ones.
The very sizes of the bamboos tubes will produce different sounds when the artists hit them with a stick. When you listen to T’rung, you will feel like listening to the sounds of the babbling streams, water-falls, or rustling leaves in the forests. According the legend of the Highland people, each of tubes in the T’rung instrument represents one god that protects the farm of the people. Dan Bau is the one-string instrument. Although it has only one string, but it can produce all levels of sounds. The body of the instrument is made of a special wood in long box shape, with one end smaller than the other.
The sounds of Dan Bau are beautiful, deep and charming. They can be very sweet and affectionate, but sometimes sad and doleful.
Tam Thap Luc has meaning of 36 string instrument. It had origin in India and then was imported to China. The instrument came to Vietnam in the 18th century. The design of the instrument has been upgraded from time to time, especially the number of strings has increased beyond 36 to demonstrate more music nuances. However, the name of the instrument remains unchanged.
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