The show will start earlier, at 4 p.m, on weekends.

The music might be turned off earlier than the prescribed showtimes while the water and lighting show will continue, depending on the day, so as not to affect hotels and local residents in the vicinity.

Nguyen Hue walking street’s water fountain.

The VND23 billion ($992,000) fountain at Nguyen Hue - Le Loi intersection has been functioning since the end of October. Shaped as a glass lotus flower with surrounding sprinklers, it symbolizes people’s solidarity in developing the city and taking it to greater heights, authorities said.

More facelifts are planned for Nguyen Hue walking street in the coming time, including lighting up the entire street including more stone benches and garbage bins. The city will also add more security in the fountain and the Uncle Ho monument garden area.

The Vietnam’s first walking street is 670-meters long and 64-meters wide. It welcome thousands of visitors every day. The street has also hosted major street festivals, parades, and the annual Lunar New Year celebration, when it becomes an amazing flower street.

New policy needed to preserve ethnic Khmer music forms

With the introduction of modern musical forms, the folk music of ethnic Khmer in the southern region has encountered multiple problems retaining its popular status.

Irish band to open Monsoon Music Festival in Hanoi

Irish alternative rock band Kodaline will debut in Hanoi at the Monsoon Music Festival on November 1. The band are from Dublin and feature lead singer and guitarist Steve Garrigan, guitarist and keyboard Mark Prendergast, drummer Vincent May and bassist Jason Boland.

HCMC to host international music fest

HOZO 2019 will become the first international music festival to be held by HCMC on the Nguyen Hue walking street from December 13-15.

Vietnam’s traditional musical instruments featured at RoK’s festival

Vietnam’s traditional musical instruments including monochord and T'rung (bamboo xylophone) were introduced to visitors to the Baekje Cultural Festival which took place in the Republic of Korea on October 3.

French artists to adapt Vietnam’s masterpiece ‘Tale of Kieu’ into musical theatre

Vietnam’s 18th century poetic masterpiece ‘Tale of Kieu’ by celebrated poet Nguyen Du will be adapted into a musical theatre production for the first time by French artists at a performance to be held in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi this September.

Source: VNA