(To Quoc) - Tourists coming to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) at the end of December this year will have the opportunity to participate in the 2024 HCMC Brass Band Festival and the Puppetry Festival, one of the cultural and artistic activities - typical events of HCMC at the end of the year, organized with the hope of becoming an annual cultural event with the city's own mark.
The 2024 Ho Chi Minh City Brass Band Festival and Puppetry Festival are opportunities for the public and tourists to Ho Chi Minh City to enjoy puppet performances and lively and attractive musical instrument parades with skits and musical works praising the homeland, the country, the Communist Party, President Ho Chi Minh, revolutionary traditions, and good works from other countries and the world.
The festival takes place on Le Loi Street, the lane for cars, from Pasteur to Phan Boi Chau, from 18:00-22:00 on December 27-29 at the water puppetry stages - Thuy Dinh stage, mobile stage, brass band performance area. The festival gathers 26 participating units with a number of up to more than 1,100 brass band artists, actors, musicians...
The 2024 Ho Chi Minh City Brass Band Festival is a playground, creating conditions for brass bands, musicians, military ceremonial groups... from the system of Cultural Centers/Cultural - Sports Centers of Thu Duc City and districts; Cultural Centers, Children's Houses, Youth Activity Centers of Ho Chi Minh City and districts, Command, Conservatory of Music, Military Region 7, Symphony and Ballet Theater, City Children's House, Marching Band teams... to exchange and learn experiences to improve skills, explore creative methods, perform, and parade art to serve the cultural life, healthy entertainment needs of the City's people and tourists at the end of the year.
The festival attracted nearly 16 teams with nearly 1,000 actors to perform and parade with performances including: solo, duo - trio - quartet, ensemble of various types of instrumental music, each with its own characteristics requiring high harmony level, large community coordination, high artistry and profound content. At the same time, some works were also staged with a community character, close movements such as ritual drums and trumpets, collective activities, creating a bustling atmosphere of year-end festival sounds...
The festival promises to bring a creative cultural space with unique experiences through the performances of musical instruments rich in majestic sounds, staged and paraded in a joyful atmosphere to serve the cultural life and healthy entertainment needs of the public and visitors. In particular, when coming to this playground, visitors and the public will enjoy the characteristic melodies of modern musical instruments such as: Trumpet, Harmonica, Saxophones, Trumbone, Clarinet...
In particular, the Festival Opening Program includes 3 chapters "Homeland Colors", "Spring Flowers of the Country", "What a Surprise", broadcast live, with the participation of many artists, actors, and musicians, which will bring many interesting and attractive things to the Festival; at the same time, it is also a special art performance night serving the spiritual life of the people of the City.
Many art programs for tourists coming to Ho Chi Minh City at the end of the year
Immersed in the vibrant atmosphere of Ho Chi Minh City and the diversity of Vietnamese culture, the Puppetry Festival in Ho Chi Minh City opens up a unique space for creativity and experience. This event is not only an opportunity for talented artists to showcase the traditional art of puppetry, but also an opportunity for the community to get closer to the country's unique cultural heritage.
Through each performance, the Ho Chi Minh City Puppetry Festival is not only a place for visitors to discover the exquisite beauty of puppetry art, but also an opportunity to admire the long-standing cultural values inherited from generation to generation.
Immersing yourself in the atmosphere decorated by flexible puppets, water stage, shadow puppet stage, string puppet stage… and the captivating story helps people better understand the value of each vivid painting.
This year's Festival has 10 participating art units, with more than 100 puppetry and circus artists parading on the streets, along with many special performances, plays, and plays, carrying many cultural colors of the country and the world. The street puppetry parade is organized to educate, entertain and create excitement in the community, the puppetry and street circus parade will attract attention, creating a vibrant and fun atmosphere for people as well as tourists, creating interaction with the audience will have an interesting experience and be closer to the community.
The festival is organized to preserve, promote, introduce, advertise and develop the values of cultural and artistic forms of Vietnam. Create conditions for the widespread dissemination of folk - ethnic and modern art values, meeting the cultural enjoyment needs of all classes of people living and working in the city; City residents have access to and meet cultural - artistic units, talented and experienced artisans, artists and musicians in Ho Chi Minh City and enjoy art programs that are invested in elaborate, serious and highly professional staging and so that the movement of performing and artistic activities in Ho Chi Minh City will increasingly develop and spread widely in community life.
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