(ĐN)- Dong Nai will attend the National "Don ca tai tu" Festival-Bac Lieu 2014, which will be jointly held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Bac Lieu provincial People's Committee in the Mekong Delta province from March 20-23.
(ĐN)- Dong Nai will attend the National “Don ca tai tu” Festival-Bac Lieu 2014, which will be jointly held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Bac Lieu provincial People’s Committee in the Mekong Delta province from March 20-23.
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| A “Don ca tai tu” performance in Dong Nai |
The information was released at the meeting of Dong Nai provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism with related sectors for the preparation to attend the festival.
The festival will also feature food fair, beauty contest for amateur singers, performances staged by amateur singers and instrumentalists as well as seminar on “Preserving and promoting “Don ca tai tu” – a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.
There will be also a seminar on promoting trade and tourism and signing ceremony on cooperation agreement on tourism development between HCM city, southeastern provinces, Mekong Delta provinces and the northern province of Ninh Binh.
According to the festival’s organising board, the event will help promote the land and people of the southern region and Bac Lieu province, in particular, in a bid to lure more visitors and spur sustainable local socio-economic development.
“Don ca tai tu”, a musical art in southern Vietnam, has become a recognised UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Known as a musical art that has both scholarly and folk roots, “Don ca tai tu” developed in southern Vietnam in the late 19th century.
It has been transmitted from generation to generation through official and unofficial forms of education. “Don ca tai tu” has continually been popularised through cultural exchanges among peoples.
The art form is played on a variety of different instruments including both traditional instruments such as ty ba (pear-shaped lute), tranh (16-string zither), bau (monochord), sao (bamboo flute), and the western instruments of violin and guitar.
Reported by V.T
