Vietnamese rockers to join ASEAN fest

The “Buc Tuong” (The Wall) rock band will represent Vietnamese youth to perform at the ASEAN Youth Cultural Exchange Festival 2011 (AYCEF 2011) scheduled for Jakarta , Indonesia from April 30 to May 2.
The “Buc Tuong” (The Wall) rock band will represent Vietnamese youth toperform at the ASEAN Youth Cultural Exchange Festival 2011 (AYCEF 2011)scheduled for Jakarta , Indonesia from April 30 to May 2.

During the festival, the five-member band will sing a song in thestyle of Vietnamese folk music named “Ra Khoi” (Go out to sea), “Neu emhieu” (If you understand) composed by the band, and “I will come”, aEnglish version of the song “Anh se den”.

Established in Hanoi in March 1995, Buc Tuong is one of the celebratedhardrock band in Vietnam with more than 30 Hardrock and Metalsongs.

The band has won many domestic andinternational prizes, including the excellent band award in the SV 96Vietnam Television top five student bands, the most impressive bandaward by the Vietnam Student Magazine in 1996 and the excellent bandaward at Visages Francophones Festival – Cahors 2003.

Themed “the ASEAN Community in the World Community”, the AYCEF 2011aims to better understanding about ASEAN member nations through musicalexchanges.

The festival will also offer anopportunity to tighten the friendship between ASEAN countries andASEAN young generations./.

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