“Bourbon Street Jazz Festival” will begin on June 1, promising to
bring the sound and taste of Bourbon Street, New Orleans to Ho Chi Minh
City.
The event, organised for the first time in
Vietnam by Kids First Enterprise, is a music and food festival that
raises funds for the “Gift of Mobility” to help the needy kids and
workers, some with disabilities, at the Kids First Enterprise factory in
Dong Ha town, central Quang Tri province where wheelchairs are
manufactured.
The locality is one of the poorest
communities in Vietnam and is most affected by the residual of the
war with the continued presence of dioxin and unexploded ordnance.
Audiences will enjoy New Orleans’ cajun cuisine and coolers and a
smorgasbord of jazz-based and jazz-related acts by multinational
artists.
The event will also feature talented Japanese jazz
singer Shun Sakai, Andy J Forest from New Orleans and a selection of
local-based bands including the Wanderlusters, Flightwave, Peche a la
Mouche, On Fire and more. Dancenter will provide a jazz dancing show
while Saigonbellydance’s artists will present their skills.-VNA