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Hanoi preserves and promotes Ca Tru arts, towards lasting vitality

Following 12 years on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding (2009), Vietnam’s Ca Tru (ceremonial singing) made a strong comeback.

Hanoi's plan to recognise culture champions

The Hanoi People's Committee has announced a plan to award titles of 'People's Artisan' and 'Meritorious Artisan' in the field of intangible cultural heritage for the third time in 2021. 

Vietnamese ‘ca tru’ art honoured by Google

Vietnamese ‘ca tru’ (ceremonial singing) was honoured by Google Doodle, a special and temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepage, on the occasion of the art form’s Founders Commemoration Day (February 23).

Northern village helps make unique folk singing thrive again

Dong Mon village in Hai Phong city is known as the cradle of Ca Tru (ceremonial) singing in Vietnam’s northern coastal region.

Folk music festival kicks off

The Vietnamese Art and Folk Music Development Centre opened the Folk Music Festival on August 7 on an open stage in Dong Xuan Market, Hoan Kiem District. 

Festival honours traditional musicians

Traditional artists from the Thang Long Puppetry Theatre won gold and silver medals at the Traditional Musical Instrumentalist and Ensemble Festival 2017 which was held from April 15 -23 in the central province of Thanh Hoa. 

Zither poems on show

VietNamNet Bridge – On December 11, Heritage Space will host a special musical night entitled Poems by Zither. 

Vietnamese artisans honoured for preserving intangible values

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fifty-five artisans have been conferred with titles of "meritorious artisans" in Ha Noi and HCM City in recognition of their contribution to preserving and upholding intangible culture values.

Warming the spirit

  Music festivals are an important part of cultural life in the north as winter comes to an end.

Professor Tran Van Khe, guardian of Vietnam’s traditional music

The passing of 94-year-old musicologist Tran Van Khe on June 24 was a great loss to people who love traditional Vietnamese music. Professor Khe has dedicated his entire life to preserving Vietnam’s culture and introducing it to the world.

Chau Van - Vietnamese ritual singing

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chau Van is a Vietnamese form of ritual singing. Chau means supplication, van means literature.

Cultural events celebrate New Year

 VietNamNet Bridge – Water puppetry and Dong Ho paintings are just two amongst Viet Nam's many traditional arts selected to entertain locals and tourists alike during the Lunar New Year holiday season in Ha Noi's Old Quarter.

Intangible cultural preservation means human protection

VietNamNet Bridge – Since UNESCO started honouring spiritual and cultural values of humanity with the intangible cultural heritage title in 2003, the official status has been granted to nine intangible cultural heritages in Vietnam,

Busking enlivens Ha Noi's old quarter

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the capital city seem to have hit on a win-win plan to promote the nation's folk traditions - encouraging artists to perform at street corners.

Vi-Giam singing becomes intangible cultural heritage of humanity

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Nghe Tinh Vi-Giam folk singing was officially recognised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity at the 9th session of its Inter-governmental Committee

Preserving Hanoi’s Old Quarter soul during urbanisation

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi's Old Quarter is known as an ancient urban heritage, associated with the formation and development of Thang Long – Hanoi, with a range of handicraft and trade activities making up guilds featuring

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Proposal seeks UNESCO heritage status for Bai choi singing

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bai choi singing in the central provinces of Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Quang Nam was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in late August,

Ca tru brought back from brink

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will ask the UNESCO to take the ancient north Vietnamese ca tru form of traditional singing off the list of endangered world cultural heritage.

Bui Xa upholds singing tradition

 VietNamNet Bridge – Every lover of Vietnamese music knows Bac Ninh as the home of quan ho (love duets) and ca tru (ceremonial singing), both listed by UNESCO as intangible heritages of mankind.