Buon Ma Thuot City pilots gong performances to serve people and tourists

On February 1, Mr. Vo Tien Dung, Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Buon Ma Thuot City ( Dak Lak ), said that the City People's Committee has just issued a plan to organize gong cultural performances to serve local people and tourists.

According to the plan, the Department of Culture - Information and the Center for Culture, Sports and Tourism of Buon Ma Thuot City will coordinate to develop the content of the program in the coming time, performing from 9:30 on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month. Initially, the pilot will be implemented once a month on the morning of the 2nd Sunday of the month at 10/3 Square, Buon Ma Thuot City.

In the program, artisans will perform gong songs of ethnic groups using bronze gongs and bamboo gongs; perform traditional musical instruments (original or improved) related to gongs; perform folk songs and folk dances.

Illustrative gong performance at a workshop on gong culture in Dak Lak

In which, the accompaniment must use gongs (both bronze gongs and bamboo gongs) or traditional bamboo musical instruments, original or improved); xoang dance or folk dance with a community character.

In addition to gong performances, there are also a number of genres such as: solo, duet, ensemble of Central Highlands ethnic musical instruments such as: T'rung, goong, ding nam...

Buon Ma Thuot City also encourages cultural and artistic teams and groups of the Tay, Nung, Thai and Muong ethnic groups in the area to participate. The program will include an exchange with the audience, a solemn ceremony of exchanging bracelets, drinking rice wine...; at the same time, promoting connections with travel companies, associations and businesses to promote the program and spread it widely to tourists.

According to Mr. Dung, the program aims to create conditions for villages, hamlets, residential groups in the city and teams and groups that love gong culture in neighboring districts and towns to meet, exchange and learn experiences in building mass cultural and artistic movements, preserving folk art at the grassroots level. At the same time, it aims to preserve traditional folk art works, praise the love for the homeland, the heroic traditions of the ethnic groups in the highlands, honor and spread the cultural values of 40 ethnic groups living in Buon Ma Thuot City.

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