Artwork is Work: ASEAN Music Festival

UPDATE: Tickets and Band Line-up for ASEAN Music Festival

Sat 11 May 2013, 2 pm
American Club

From CAMA:

The United States Embassy Hanoi and CAMA Vietnam are proud to announce the inaugural Artwork is Work: ASEAN Music Festival. This celebration of creative, Asian youth culture will take place in Hanoi on May 11 featuring bands from the ASEAN region as well as art and community groups from within Hanoi.

Making their way to the festival are a host of top quality musicians all looking to showcase the sounds of their country. Festival performers include garage rockers Blood Sugar Politik (Myanmar), traditional Thai funk act Molam International (Thailand), the post-rock algorithms of Pulso (Philippines), Vietnam’s nu-metal heroes 18+ (Vietnam) and genre-defying electronic sound artists Muon (Singapore). Besides non-stop live music on the main stage, the festival will feature a creative arts market run by the Hanoi Flea Market and a visual arts center curated by Hanoi’s Onion Cellar collective.

As well as promoting pride in the cultural vibrancy of modern ASEAN nations, the festival is also intended to highlight respect for artists in Asia via Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). IPR represents a vital part of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement as well as a core responsibility for countries joining the WTO. But the issue is far from just another international obligation, IPR is a critical requirement for any country to develop technologically-advanced industries and promote creativity and innovation among its people.

Protecting a nation’s creative rights is vital to the development of homegrown industries in arts and technology. For the sake of composers, performing artists, writers, painters, computer programmers, caricaturists, musicians, illustrators and other creators of original works, Artwork is Work: ASEAN Music Festival seeks to highlight the importance of intellectual property rights enforcement in ASEAN countries.

Tickets

Tickets for the event will be available on the door.

For more details, visit CAMA’s website and Facebook event.

Watch CAMA Festival 5 (2011)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUhatJEVD0[/youtube]

Watch performance of Molam International (Thailand)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmkURr1SrY&list=UU_BrRnTGyDNB2PSSC4AzSTw [/youtube]