From the organizer: Join us at The Old Compass Cafe for a special night - Saigon : Echoes from 1900.
A lecture-demonstration on the first recording of Southern Vietnamese music, featuring a love song performed by a female vocalist from Saigon, recently discovered in a French archive of the 1900 Paris World Exposition. The highlight of the night will be a the world-premiere live performance of this newly-found song.
The sounds from more than a century earlier will be brought to life again by leading Saigonese traditional musicians.
Presenters:
- Huynh Khai, artist (Head of Traditional Music, HCMC Conservatory of Music) is well-known nationwide for composing a series of heart-moving lyrics for Cai luong (reformed theatre) and Don ca tai tu (music of Southern Vietnam)
- Le-Tuyen Nguyen, main speaker (Teaching Fellow, Australian National University School of Music)
- Mai Phương, vocalist, won a gold medal in The Southern Music Festival 2017 in Binh Duong (Liên hoan đờn ca tài tử)
- Mỹ Tiên, vocalist, won a gold medal in The Southern Music Festival 2017 in Binh Duong (Liên hoan đờn ca tài tử)
Join us for a special Saigon evening.
ENTRANCE TICKETS purchased in advance: 100,000VND
ENTRANCE TICKETS at the door (if available) 150,000VND. (Please note that this is an intimate venue and most talks sell out).
NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD WILL BE ALLOWED
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE OLD COMPASS CAFE - 3rd Floor, 63/11 Pasteur St., District 1, HCMC (in the alley next to Liberty Citypoint Hotel)
Thursday, 7 January
7:00pm - 9:30pm
The Old Compass Cafe | 3rd Floor, 63/11 Pasteur, D1, Ho Chi Minh City
