International Finger-Style Guitar Festival 2019 to take Hanoi’s stage this month

Fingerstyle, a new genre of solo guitar music in Vietnam, has been thriving in recent years. 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. Fingerstyle brings about a whole new perspective for the acoustic guitar in terms of techniques and the sounds a guitar could create. Being able to convey many styles and music genres, FS is creativity at its highest level. The player can freely develop new techniques and show their own colors…

IFSGF (Internatinal Finger-Style Guitar Festival) is series of international fingerstyle guitar concerts, an annual Asia event since 2010, with participation of famous fingerstyle guitarists from many different countries. This year marks the 10^th anniversary of the concert in Asia. This is also the 5^th concert edition held in Vietnam.

Performing artists are Feng E (Taiwan) - a young talented ukulele player that got to the Finale of Asia’s Got Talent season 2; CK Chen (China) - a composer of the hit Untitled that went viral in Vietnam’s fingerstyle community; Kanaho (Japan) - one of the most famous female fingerstyle guitarists in Japan; Masa Sumide (Japan); and Ivan Song (China).

Photoshoot (for each person) with all artists takes place at 6.30 pm on the day of the concert, only for VIP tickets.

CD signing session after the concert for those who buy the CDs onsite (only on CDs or guitars, ukuleles).

Children under age 6 are not allowed into the concert.

Concerts will take place at the Youth Theatre of Vietnam (11 Ngo Thi Nham Str., Hai Ba Trung Dist. Hanoi)./.