Summarizing and awarding the Provincial Festival of Mass Performing Arts in 2021

12/1/2021 - 6:12:02 PM

(HBO) - On November 25th, the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a summary and award ceremony of the Provincial Festival of Mass Performing Arts in 2021.

The leaders from Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism are awarding prizes to the units with excellent performances.

Due to the complicated development of Covid-19 epidemics, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism did not organize the Festival of Mass Performing Arts centrally, it was organized in an indirect form. The localities selected actors, developed the content, staged the program, made video clips and then sent them to attend the festival. This was the first year a new form had been implemented to ensure the professional tasks and as well as to implement the regulations on the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemics.

More than 50 performances of the special songs, dances and music praising the Party, the homeland, the homeland of Hoa Binh, especially celebrating 135 years of establishment of the province and 30 years of re-establishing the province were built and elaborately staged, recorded and sent to the fesstival. Most of the programs and the performances of songs, dances and music were imbued with the traditional culture and the national cultural identity.

Through the programs sent to the festival, the Organizing Committee has chosen 8 A prizes, 18 B prizes, 24 C prizes in the genre of songs, dances, and music and they awarded 4 A prizes, 6 B prizes to the units with the best recorded performance. Good recording program. In which, 8 A prizes in the genre of songs, dances and music were awarded for the following performances: Muong folk songs: Moi Trau, U hay, Dap Khot lady(Lac Son); singing and dancing: Hoa Binh -135 years (Hoa Binh city); male solo: Hoa Binh - past and present (Lac Thuy); dance: The sacred soul of Muong land (Hoa Binh city); the dance: the Stream Source (Lac Son); the dance: Golden Tray Festival (Yen Thuy); The instrumental concert: The rhythm of life in Muong land (Hoa Binh city); the concert of Muong Gongs: Ben Ram Song Bo, Praising Land Praising Muong, Tram Kham (Lac Son).

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