I'm getting the feeling that we will hear an enormous amount of Ca tru during this trip! Last week Hue asked as if we wanted to follow her and her students to a village hall, Dinh, where they were going to perform Ca tru and Nha nhac. Vietnamese TV where making a documentary about her and the Ca tru clb Thang Long and I expect she thought that some Swedish students would add an exotic touch to the tv program, we followed of course. We left for the dinh, I think it was called Cong vi, 8.30 in the morning. It was a very nice place on a backstreet, surprisingly silent exept for the school children playing on the other side of a wall. We had got the impression that the club were going to perform for an audience but it turned put that the arrangemant was only for the Tv camera. It took a few hours of retakes and changing of positions to get all the picturesque details on film. After that the Tv crew wanted to interview us togther with Hue, this included a scene where Hue was supposed to teach us a "new" tune. In fact we had already played that tune for over year so it took a bit of acting to make it seem authentic...
What we thought was going to be a one hour performance took half the day. It was interesting though, the sun was shining and we had a nice lunch with Hue afterwards and talking about Vietnamese music.
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