The Vietnam International Fingerstyle Guitar Festival (IFSGF) 2018 will take place at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi on August 25.

IFSGF is a series of international fingerstyle guitar concerts – an annual Asia event since 2010 – with participation of famous fingerstyle guitarists from many different countries.

Poster of the festival.

Fingerstyle is 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 and is currently drawing attention for the guitar-music genre from our community.

This year’s event features 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).

With the participation of international artists from many countries, the festival promises to be an impressive cultural exchange event.

In addition, the performances of the international artists will help to promote the development of finger-style guitar playing in Vietnam.

VIP ticket includes Photo Session (one by one) with the artists at 6:30 pm in the concert night. Audience who want to join the Signing Session after the concert can do so by buying artists’s CD at the concert (signature is only for this CD or your guitar, ukelele). 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).

Tickets, ranging from VND 500,000 (USD 22), VND 700,000 (USD 30.8), VND 900,000 (USD 39.6) to VND 1,200,000 (USD 52.8), are available at ticketbox, WSM./.

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