VietNamNet Bridge - Danish music band ‘Cancer’ will have two performances at the Hue Festival 2016, at the Tay Thai Hoa Stage on May 2 and An Dinh Palace on May 3.

From Denmark, the two musicians of Cancer Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild and Kristian Finne Kristensen said that they are looking forward to performing in Vietnam.

“We’ve never been to Vietnam before and are really excited about coming. We actually don’t know a whole lot about the Hue festival, but after reading about, it we are really happy to be part of it and hope to be able to give something back,” they said.

Hue festival 2016 is the biggest international culture festival in Vietnam with a diverse participation of art troupes and artists from all over Vietnam and many other countries. The festival will last for 6 days, from 29 April to 4 May with a wide range of shows and community events.

“The Embassy of Denmark in Vietnam established good partnership with Vietnam in art and culture in the last 10 years with the aim to promote people to people link between Vietnam and Denmark. I hope Vietnamese audience will enjoy the soulful music of the Danish band Cancer in the poetic and historical citadel of Hue," said counsellor Ane Kirsten Andersen.

Cancer is a duo consisting of singer and producer Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild and singer and guitarist Kristian Finne Kristensen. The two songwriters and friends have been working on creating a new and unique musical universe for several years.  Their band is named in remembrance of Nicolaj Manuel Vonsild’s father.

Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild is known for his characteristic, beautiful and soulful vocals in When Saints Go Machine’s electronic music. Kristian Finne Kristensen is known for his warm and ever-present vocals and the analogue sound from guitars, bass and drums in Chorus Grant. With Cancer both musicians show yet another side of their talents.

In September 2014, the band released their mini album Ragazzi, s radical and beautiful future ballads showing a restless calm, an out-of-this-world melodiousness cutting through the gamut of emotions with its deeply melancholic undercurrent.

Cancer played its first concert at the prestigious Danish film festival Copenhagen: DOX in November 2012 and have since played only a handful of carefully chosen shows - each time leaving the audience out of breath with excitement.

T. Van