VietNamNet Bridge – In over half of a decade, RockStorm was held five times, with more than VND4 billion ($200,000) raised from 42 concerts across the country for charity activities. Some shows drew up to 25,000 spectators without using any trick or scandal.

Annual Rock Storm to return to seven cities 

 

 

RockStorm was directed by famous musician and producer Quoc Trung, which is also an important factor ensuring its quality. Not to mention big cities like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang, in almost provinces where RockStorm were held, music fans had not had the opportunity to watch live famous rock bands such as The Wall, Ngu Cung, Microwave or Unlimited until RockStorm came.

When The Wall, Vietnam's most successful rock band, said goodbye to fans at the end of 2006, music lovers almost had no information about other contemporary rock bands and they forgot the existence of this music genre in Vietnamese musical life.

RockStorm is the thunderbolt erasing that gloomy cloud shadow. RockStorm has completely changed the audience’s look on rock music in Vietnam.

On the stage of RockStorm, not only famous names like rocker Tran Lap (The Wall), singer Phuong Thanh, Yellow Skin or Red Tide rockbands but a series of artists, talented young bands in Vietnam have been introduced to the public. Many of them have then widely known, such as Microwave, Ngu Cung, Re-Cycle, Kop, I-TEU, rockers Pham Anh Khoa and Tina Tinh.
 
While other programs have to use tricks and scandals to attract the audience, RockStorm is a "clean" show. Without any scandal, RockStorm could draw more than 200,000 people for a concert in Hanoi or HCM City. Rock music seems to have no place for tricks or scandals. With RockStorm, performers devote themselves to music enthusiasts, and the audience comes here by the need to participate in a healthy music playground.

RockStorm is also praised for its social contribution. In the last two years, the whole revenue from the tickets of RockStorm was donated to charitable purposes. The numbers do not lie. RockStorm 2011 collected VND1.7 billion and RockStorm 2012 earned VND2.4 billion and the amounts were transferred to the accounts of the Operation Smile Foundation and the Fund for Poor Students.
 
Vietnamese rock may be not really professional and Vietnam does not have the music festivals like those in Europe or the U.S. yet, but with RockStorm, after 5 years of quiet dedication, since 2007, it's time for it to have more equal recognition from the professional and society.

T. Van