The event, hosted by the Vietnam Women’s Union, will feature popular Vietnamese singers, including Thanh Lam, Dong Nhi, Thao Trang, Ho Trung Dung and Trong Hieu amongst others, who will stream live performances from their homes.

Online music programme to raise funds for Covid-19 fight.

Donations made at the event will go to the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee to support women who are directly participating in the fight against Covid-19 and poor women whose lives are being affected by the epidemic.

On April 16, the Vietnam Youth Federation in coordination with the online music platform NhacCuaTui launched a campaign calling on music lovers, artists, businesses, and organisation to make contributions to the prevention and control of Covid-19.

People can visit www.nhaccuatui.com/covid19 to make a donation of VND49,000 or VND499,000, and they will receive a one-month or one-year VIP account of NhacCuaTui as a thank-you gift for their goodwill, respectively.

Active until May 9, the event aims to raise funds to support medical workers and disadvantaged people amidst Covid-19 outbreak.

A total of VND215 million has been donated to the organising board on the launch day.

Members of VKEIA present medical supplies to Tay Ninh provincial border guards.

Classical Movements, an American concert touring company, recently announced it has had to cancel its Minnesota Orchestra’s tour to Asian countries, including Vietnam, due to concerns about Covid-19 outbreak. The tour was scheduled in June and July in celebration of the 25th founding anniversary of Vietnam – US diplomatic relations (1995-2020).

The Vietnam - Korea Experts and Intellectuals Association (VKEIA), a member of the Vietnam- Korea Businessmen and Investment Association (VKBIA), on April 16 presented 6,000 medical face masks, three boxes of hand sanitizers, and other medical supplies to Tay Ninh provincial border guards.

During their visit, the association’s members also donated 2,000 face masks and one box of hand sanitizers to the provincial police force, and presented gifts to soldiers at Cau Trang border post.

Covid-19 forces voting for popular music awards to go online for first time

Close to 100 reporters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will vote online for the 15th edition of the Devotion Music Awards run by Vietnam News Agency’s Sport & Culture newspaper, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organising board said on March 19.

Project to promote development of experimental music

The experimental music project, entitled “Shapes of music”, will officially be launched by the Dom Dom (Firefly) Experimental Music and Arts Centre on March 1.

Blind musician releases inspirational book

Blind musician Ha Van Chuong has released a book titled Nham Mat Nhin Sao (Watching Stars With Closed Eyes) aiming to inspire people with disabilities.

Vietnamese folk dances impress visitors at music festival in Italy

Artists from the Italy-Vietnam cultural bridge association have staged a Vietnamese folk music and dance performance for Italian visitors to give them a taste of a Vietnamese village festival.

Vietnamese artists to play famous music from animated Disney movies

Widely known through cartoons, the soundtracks of famous Disney animations such as "Pinocchio" and "Cinderella” are to be performed by Vietnamese artists during the "Concert of Childhood Memory".

Source: NDO