A performance at the festival (Photo: VNA)
The 96 performances at the festival were themed around the Party,
President Ho Chi Minh, as well as positive changes in several localities, the
love for homeland, traditional festivals, and family sentiments.
Following the opening ceremony, audiences were able to enjoy nine folk
performances.
Soc Trang is home to a large society of Khmer people. According to Nguyen Van
Bon, Director of the provincial radio and TV station and head of the organising
board, the event is a chance for amateur singers to share and exchange
experience to promote the traditional culture of Khmer people through folk
songs and musical instruments.
The festival is also an opportunity to honour, preserve, and develop the unique
art of the Khmer people, contributing to developing the cultural identities of
the group, while meeting the demand for folk art from locals and audiences from
other localities, he said.
The festival will run until October 5 in Studio 3 of the Soc Trang radio-TV
station. The opening and closing ceremonies are broadcast live on channels STV1
and STV2 of Soc Trang TV, as well as channel 5 of the Vietnam Television.
Source: VNA
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