Concert «Có Một Hà Nội Trong Nỗi Nhớ» (A Hanoi Remembered)

   Some songs need only a few opening bars to pull a listener back into an old autumn evening. Ho Chi Minh City is giving one whole evening to music like that — an evening where Hanoi returns not as streets and rooftops, but as melodies several generations grew up on.

   The programme is built around three composers who between them wrote the musical portrait of the Vietnamese capital. Doan Chuan (Đoàn Chuẩn, 1924–2001) belongs to the pre-war tân nhạc generation, and his autumn love songs were written with the lyricist Tu Linh (Từ Linh). Trinh Cong Son (Trịnh Công Sơn, 1939–2001) is the most widely performed Vietnamese songwriter of the 20th century, the one who turned the city into a meditation on time and people. Phu Quang (Phú Quang, 1949–2021) was a Hanoian who spent many years in the south — his best-known Hanoi songs were all written far from Hanoi, which gives a southern edition of this programme a particular edge.

   Here is who takes the stage for a single evening:

• — Cam Van (Cẩm Vân) — a powerful voice that still knows how to stay gentle;
• — Hong Nhung (Hồng Nhung) — the singer most closely bound to Trịnh Công Sơn's catalogue, who also hosts the evening and links the songs with spoken narration;
• — Tan Minh (Tấn Minh) — the voice Vietnamese audiences associate with Phú Quang's Hanoi ballads;
• — Quang Ha (Quang Hà) — a confessional, story-driven delivery.

   Musical direction is by Vu Huyen Trung (Vũ Huyền Trung), with the vocal group Cadillac and the string ensemble Saigon Strings, so familiar recordings arrive in live arrangements.

   The evening suits listeners raised on Vietnamese ballad repertoire, northerners now living in the south, and newcomers to Vietnamese music looking for a way in: three distinct composing styles in one sitting explain a great deal about why this repertoire has not aged.

   This is the programme's second stop. The first ran in Hanoi in June 2026 at Cung Văn hóa Hữu nghị Việt Xô, where Tấn Minh and Quang Hà shared the stage with My Linh (Mỹ Linh) and Ngoc Anh (Ngọc Anh); the southern edition keeps the concept and changes the line-up.

   The hall has two seating levels, and the seating chart is published on the booking page, so you choose an exact seat rather than a general zone. The venue sits in the Tân Sơn Nhất area, a short ride from the airport and about twenty minutes from District 1 outside rush hour.

   Ticket tiers are named after songs: the rows closest to the stage are “Khúc Mùa Thu” (Autumn Tune), “Ru Tình” and “Thu Quyến Rũ”, followed by “Điều Giản Dị”, “Diễm Xưa”, “Tà Áo Xanh”, “Romance 2” and “Hạ Trắng”, with “Lá Thư” and “Bâng Quơ” furthest back. After payment a QR e-ticket reaches the email you register and is exchanged for a hard ticket; the organiser honours only the first person to check in with a given code.

   The organiser, Thăng Long Show, takes questions by email at [email protected] and on Zalo at 0782 414 468.

   If you have never heard this repertoire live — with strings, in a room where every word carries — this is an evening worth clearing your calendar for. Come and collect your own Hanoi.