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Programme honours contemporary Vietnamese music and film

The FAMLAB Open Session, a programme showcasing Vietnamese contemporary music and film, will be held on May 10 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Programme honours contemporary Vietnamese music and film ảnh 1The  Saigon Soul Revival band
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HCM City (VNS/VNA) - TheFAMLAB Open Session, a programme showcasing Vietnamese contemporary music andfilm, will be held on May 10 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The session will be hosted bySaigon Soul Revival, a five-member band of musicians from France, Denmark andthe Republic of Cyprus, and a Vietnamese vocalist.

The band will perform well-knownVietnamese music during the 1960s and 1970s.

The band’s collaborator, JanHagenkoetter, the producer behind Saigon Supersound project on old Vietnamesemusic, will join the group for a discussion about popular Vietnamese songs andtalks and decades-old compositions which have never been recorded.

Saigon Soul Revival, formed in2016, aims to preserve and recreate Western-influenced Vietnamese music in the1960s and 1970s. They have applied new arrangements and interpretations for oldVietnamese songs.

The band has performed numerousshows in various venues across the country.

They rose to fame after takingpart in the TV music reality show BanNhac Viet (Vietnamese Band) organised by Vietnam Television in 2017.

Famous composer Duc Tri, who wasthe band’s coach in the show, said: “Despite members coming from differentcountries, Saigon Soul Revival performs music in a very Vietnamese style.”

FAMLAB Open Session was initiatedby the British Council in Vietnam last November to introduce and discovercontemporary Vietnamese music and film. It aims to connect the artists andaudiences through open rehearsals and discussions.

The performance by Saigon SoulRevival will start at 7:30 pm at Café Nguoi Sai Gon (Saigonese Café) on 9 ThaiVan Lung street in district 1. Participants can register for the show at http://bit.ly/SSR1005.-VNS/VNA
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