The first concert will be held in the Hanoi Opera House on November 6, which will be followed by similar shows over the following two days at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, said the festival’s organising board at a press conference on October 30.

Four stages will be set up within the museum’s grounds so that artists from several different ethnic minorities can perform together.

Performers from Vietnam’s Institute of Musicology and folk musicians from provinces across the country will perform a wide variety of styles that are culturally typical of the different ethnic minorities, including the “gong” concert, the “k’voh” pan-pipe show of the Xo Dang people, the scarf dance, performed by the Thai people, a sanarai flute and traditional drum performance by the Cham, as well as various shows by other traditional artists.

The festival is a symbol of the cooperation shown between Swedish and Vietnamese artists in a Swedish-financed project to support the sustainable development of Vietnamese culture, which was first carried out five years ago.

The project was brought to life by Vietnam’s Institute of Musicology in 18 cities and provinces nationwide, and focused on surveying, collecting and recording all forms of folk art so that it will never be lost./.