More than 1,300 artists perform and parade at the Ho Chi Minh City Puppetry and Brass Music Festival

The Puppetry Festival and the Ho Chi Minh City Brass Band Festival, organized by the Organizing Committee for the Celebration of Major Holidays of the City, the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City in coordination with relevant units, is one of the typical cultural and artistic activities of Ho Chi Minh City. This is also an opportunity for the city's public and tourists to enjoy the lively and attractive puppet performances and musical instrument parades with many skits and musical works praising the homeland, the country, the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, along with good works from other countries.

Liên hoan múa rối và Liên hoan nhạc kèn TP.HCM - Ảnh 1. — Southern Dragon Puppetry Troupe - Southern Art Theater, the host, also brings many unique puppet and circus forms.

The festival brings together nearly 30 participating units with a total of more than 1,300 trumpet artists, actors, musicians, etc.

Street puppet parade

The Puppetry Festival is not only an opportunity for talented artists to demonstrate the traditional art of puppetry, but also an opportunity for the community to get closer to the country's unique cultural heritage, and a place for visitors to explore the subtle beauty of this art form.

This year's festival has 9 participating art units, with more than 100 puppet and circus artists parading around Ben Thanh market, along with many unique performances, plays, and plays, imbued with the cultural colors of the country and the world.

The organizers said that the street puppet parade is organized to educate, entertain and create excitement in the community; promising to attract attention and create a vibrant atmosphere for locals as well as tourists .

The audience will enjoy many colorful performances from: The Green Coconut Water Puppetry Troupe with the excerpt of the water puppet Luc Van Tien saves Nguyet Nga , coconut shell dance; solo artist Xuan Long from Thang Long Puppetry Theater with Latin dance string puppets, the young old lady, Michael Jackson, Messi; solo artist Diem Uyen with a belly puppet performance with the character "Sarah the Wanderer"; solo artist Phi Tuan from the Hue Ancient Capital Puppetry Theater performing string puppets with traditional cultures of Vietnam's regions such as the rice drum dance, Apsara, folk songs of the three regions, and Van Kieu girls; the Jade Rabbit Puppetry Center performing the short puppet play The Cat and the Lazy Boy with mascot puppets and hand puppets; the Rainbow Puppetry Center with hand puppets, mask puppets, and mascot puppets for children; The Southern Dragon Puppetry Troupe - Southern Art Theater, as the host, also brings many unique puppetry and circus forms such as Hero Nguyen Trung Truc water puppetry, traditional plays, On Dinh chop Ta shadow puppetry, Western Floating Market, Rainy Day puppetry, Stork Wing Dance ...

Nearly 1,000 actors participated in the brass music performance.

The Ho Chi Minh City Brass Band Festival attracted more than 20 teams with nearly 1,000 performers to perform and parade, with performances including: solo, duo - trio - quartet, ensemble of various types of instrumental music by artists and musicians from the Command, Army Corps 4, Military Region 7, Ho Chi Minh City Symphony and Opera House, VNHO Orchestra, Harmonica... In which, some works were staged with a communal, intimate nature such as ceremonial drums and trumpets, collective activities, creating a bustling atmosphere during the year-end festival season.

In particular, when coming to this playground, visitors and the public will enjoy the typical melodies of modern musical instruments such as trumpet, trumbone, harmonica, saxophone, clarinet... The festival also has performances with a variety of traditional musical instruments in the wind and percussion instruments rich in variety (gong, T'rung, K'ní, Ding Goong,...) from the Gia Lai Provincial Center for Culture, Cinema and Tourism; or musical instruments such as flutes, pipes, and panpipes through the performance of the Ethnic Music Club of the Ho Chi Minh Cultural Center...

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