June 29, 2017 | 21:29 (GMT+7)
Int’l guitar festival to open in Hanoi and HCMC
PANO - Vietnam International Finger-style Guitar Festival 2017 (IFSGF 2017), the third of this kind, will take place on July 18 at the Youth Theater of Vietnam (Hanoi), and on July 19 at the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Music Conservatory, with the participation of five popular guitarists from Europe, America and Asia.
The guitarists Justin King (L) and Duy Phong will perform in the festival. Source: tuoitre.vn
The guitarists include Justin King (the US), Jacques Stotzem (Belgium), Agustin (Spain), Akihiro Tanaka (Japan) and Duy Phong (Vietnam).
During two nights of the festival, the artists will perform various compositions with finger-style guitar technique, a popular solo guitar genre. With only one guitar, the player can perform music as a whole music band by such a technique.
Translated by Thuy Duong