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International Finger-style Guitar Festival to open in Hanoi
  • | dtinews.vn | August 15, 2018 09:03 PM
The Vietnam International Finger-Style Guitar Festival 2018 will take place at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi on August 25.




The event will introduce performances by six finger-style guitarists from around the world, including Huang Chia-Wei from Taiwan (China), Andres Godoy (Chile), Claus Boesser Ferrari (Germany), Ryohei Shimoyama (Japan) and Tom Lumen (Hungary).


The annual festival which has been held in Asia since 2010, is part of the International Finger-Style Guitar Festival and comprises of a series of international finger-style guitar concerts.

According to the organiser, this new genre of solo guitar music has been thriving in recent years in Vietnam. One simple way of describing this genre is that with only a single guitar a performer can play as if he is an entire band.

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