Vietnamese child performs in Australian music show

Nhat Tien, the eight-year-old winner of Do Re Mi (an annual singing contest for Vietnamese children), performed Frosty the Snowman on the Australian music show Carols By Daylight.

Nhat Tien, the eight-year-old winner of Do Re Mi.

Carols By Daylight, which has been organised annually by Hello Music Land since 2002, is a well-known musical special in Australia that airs on Christmas night. It has attracted the participation of well-known singers and musicians including Wylie J. Miller, Ruth Rogers-Wright and Jack Howard.

Last year's Do Re Mi winner, Do Tri Dung, also got the chance to join 60 members of the club's Children's Orchestra to perform at a concert in December.

All-star charity concert to raise funds for disabled

Leading singers will perform together in a concert on January 3 at Nam Quang tea house, HCM City, to raise funds for the disabled in Viet Nam.

The show, Life Is Beautiful, is part of a campaign launched by the organisation East Meets West, Viet Nam Television and nhacvietplus.com.vn.

Supervisors Dam Vinh Hung, Thu Minh and Ho Ngoc Ha as well as contestants from TV show The Voice will participate in the concert.

Tickets, which cost between VND400,000 (US$20) and VND1,000,000 ($50), are available at the Nam Quang tea house, 147 Cach Mang Thang Tam, HCM City.

American jazz singer set for Ha Noi hotel residency

American singer Tabitha King will perform jazz at the Sofitel Legend Metropole's Le Club from January 1 to April 30.

King achieved worldwide fame with her latest album Mind Games.

Born in North Carolina, the artist – known as "Lady T"- will perform every night except Mondays starting at 8.45pm.

Book paints picture of famed Hue artist

Hundreds of art lovers in Hue City gathered at the office of Thua Thien-Hue Association of Writers and Artists on Sunday for the release of a new book on the life and works of renowned painter Buu Chi.

The 368-page book, titled Buu Chi – Artistic Career&World's Memory, is a collection of articles and statements about the artist's perspectives on arts and his ruminations on painting and contemporary artistic life.

It features reviews of Buu Chi's paintings including the impressions he made on famous musical composers, painters and writers such as Trinh Cong Son, and Nguyen Dac Xuan.

The book also includes a number of his works including Chinese-ink and oil paintings. Many of these works, which have been preserved by his wife and children, are being published for the first time.

Born to a royal family in Hue, Buu Chi (1948 – 2002) graduated from the Faculty of Law at Hue University in 1971.

But his real love was painting and the self-taught artist went on to become a painter of renown at home and abroad.

His anti-war paintings using Chinese ink brought him fame from around the world even before the end of the American War.

After the war ended in 1975, his oil paintings were sought after by collectors from many countries.

The book was released at the closing of an exhibition of Buu Chi paintings in Hue City.

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