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VIETNAM TOUR ANNOUNCEDPeter Yarrow will make his third concert tour of Vietnam from 23 June to 1 July, this time with an international cast. Yarrow is a member of the famed folk group “Peter, Paul and Mary”. His concerts embody the sharing of cultural traditions and raise awareness and funds for the benefit of suspected victims of dioxin contamination from the defoliant Agent Orange. Yarrow will be joined by regular collaborators Rufus Cappadocia, originally from Canada, drummer Bonga Jean-baptiste , and dancer Sheila Anozier, both born in Haiti. First time partners are Irish traditional musician and musicologist Mick Moloney and flute, whistle and uilleann pipe player John Murphy. Murphy lives in Bangkok. The others are based in New York. Their tour is coordinated by the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, VTV4 and the Vietnam-USA Society of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations. It has been made possible by the support of the Threshold Foundation and Vietnamese business and individual sponsors.
Their first concert in Ho Chi Minh City on June 25 will be broadcast
live nationwide and internationally on VTV4 and HTV9 and will also
feature three popular Vietnamese singers, Dam Vinh Hung, My Tam, and
Tuan Ngoc. NGOs, foundations or businesses wishing to become sponsors of the TV broadcast should contact Mr. Bach Ngoc Chien, Managing Director, Vietnam Television International (VTV 4) A second informal concert will take place in Hoi An on 27 June. The final concert in Hanoi on 29 June. As during his previous visits, Yarrow will visit Vietnamese and international NGO programs that address the physical legacies of war such as Agent Orange, land mines and unexploded ordnance. This trip will also engage with the longer term psychological legacies of war that are created when foreign military intervention runs amok such as the actions of the Tiger Force unit in Tam Ky, Duc Pho and the Song Ve Valley area that were not reported until 2003 in the Toledo Blade and the notorious events forty years ago in My Lai.
For the limited number of HCMC studio tickets and the Ha Noi concert
(for which donations are requested to support suspected victims of
Agent Orange), contact Ms. Pham Hong Van at VTV4
For tickets to Hoi An, contact Ms. Quynh Phan at Vietnam-USA Society
Vietnamese contacts: In Hanoi
PR on VTV channel: 2.2. PR on press (articles, interviews, meeting the press,...)
Ms Nguy’n Tu’ng Di’p - Reporter/ News Division - VTV4 In HCMC:
Ms Nguy’n Thu Hà - PR Manager - Vietnam Network Corp. USA Contacts:
John McAuliff, Executive Director View previous news from 2007.
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