The Goethe Institute Vietnam will host a percussion music festival Cracking Bamboo at the Youth Theater, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street, Hanoi on October 7 and the Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du Street in District 1, HCMC on October 10.
Cracking Bamboo combines Asian and Western music to bring to audiences an exceptional and unique sound. Moreover, music troupes joining the festival will make an appearance on the courtyard of the Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Hanoi on October 6.
This year, participants from Germany, Norway, France, England, Mongolia, Canada, Belgium, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, will also come together for innovative workshops related to music and performing arts in Bangkok. Three percussionists from the HCMC Conservatory of Music and three musicians from Hanoi will play Vietnamese string instrument dan bau and traditional bamboo xylophone dan T’rung at the event.
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