Director of the UNESCO Hà Nội Traditional Arts Centre Tạ Hạnh has spent years collecting songs, reviving forgotten repertoire and teaching free classes so that the centuries-old folk tradition can continue to resonate with younger generations.
The annual festival at Đồng Xâm Village is a sacred occasion to pay tribute to ancestors, in keeping with the Vietnamese tradition of ''uống nước nhớ nguồn'', or ''when drinking water, remember its source''.
Fifty-five artisans have been conferred with titles
of "meritorious artisans" in Ha Noi and HCM City in recognition of their
contribution to preserving and upholding intangible culture values.
The first encounter in Manzi''s traditional music series Old Sounds of
the New Day will start next Friday, July 17, with a xam performance
featuring two masters of traditional music, Xuan Hoach and Thanh Hoai,
and other talented musicians.
Vietnamese traditional musical language, xam or busking, has been used for the very first time to communicate social issues in a music video entitled Xam Tra Da (Iced Tea Busking).
Musician Nguyen Quang Long, who has just returned from a tour of France and Germany to perform
xam (blind buskers'' songs), tells Culture Vulture that it is a rare art
that needs to be revitalised and given its rightful place in...
A performance featuring xam, the music of blind street performers, along
with contemporary music genres, will take place tonight at the Ha Noi
Opera House.
A night of Vietnamese folk music featuring ca tru (ceremonial singing), cheo (popular theatre), chau van (spiritual singing) and xam (blind buskers'' singing) will take place in Ha Noi on January 6.
The first-ever class in xam (ancient folk songs performed by blind
beggars) for primary and junior high school students has opened in the
northern province of Ninh Binh''s Yen Mo District.
A show of folk songs for blind beggars, known as
xam in Vietnamese, was held on Monday, in northern province of Ninh Binh
to commemorate local late artisan Ha Thi Cau and praise her
contributions to the preservation of the art.
A ceremony was held at the Hao Nam communal house in Ha Noi yesterday to honour the founders of xam singing, a genre of music and performance popular in rural northern Viet Nam a long time ago.
Ha Noi artists will restore the original art of xam
tau dien (tramway xam singing) in a concert to be held at the
Vietnamese Women''s Museum from Friday to Sunday.
