<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_31_1370204344815_80 yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_56" id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18936" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; background-color: transparent;">Rare performance of an exquisite world music tradition</span><br></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18900" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_65" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_209" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18931" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_67" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18930" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">"One Hundred Years of Joy":</span><br></span></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18928" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_70" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18927" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">An elegant evening of Ca trù music from Hanoi, Vietnam</span></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18923" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_72" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18922" style="background-color: transparent;">featuring Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion artist in residence</span><br></span></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18919"
class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_74" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18918" style="font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_223" style="font-weight: bold;">Phạm Thị Huệ</span> - voice, <span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18917" style="font-style: italic;">đàn đáy</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">đàn tỳ bà</span> lutes</font></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18906" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_78" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18905" style="font-size: 13px;">and her daughter <span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_316" style="font-weight: bold;">Nguyễn Huệ Phương</span> - voice, <span style="font-style:
italic;">phách</span> clapper</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_81" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_231" style="font-size: 13px;">with guest musician <span style="background-color: transparent;">David Badagnani, <span style="font-style: italic;">sheng</span></span><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_82" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_235" style="background-color: transparent;">Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.</span><br></span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_84" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_239" style="font-size: 13px;">Old Church on the Green</font></div><div
class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_85" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_243" style="font-size: 13px;">1 East Main Street</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_86" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_247" style="font-size: 13px;">Hudson, Ohio</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_87" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_251" style="font-size: 13px;">No tickets required; $10 suggested donation at the door (or pay what you can)</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_88" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_255" style="font-size: 13px;">Venue website: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.aum.org/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">http://www.aum.org/</a></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_90" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_259" style="font-size: 13px;">Free parking on the street and in the church's small parking lot</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_91" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_263" style="font-size: 13px;">Facebook event page:</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_92" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/281958725252693/" id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_267" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size:
13px;">https://www.facebook.com/events/281958725252693/</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_94" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_271" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_95" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_275" style="font-size: 13px;">Named by UNESCO in 2003 as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">ca trù</span> is a music like no other. Beguiling and intimate, this centuries-old poetic singing tradition, whose lyrics comprise some of Vietnam's finest literature, immerses the listener in an intoxicating world of images and sounds from times past. Never before performed in public in Ohio and exceedingly rare even in Vietnam,
don't miss this chance to hear <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span> music in the historic setting and sonorous acoustics of Hudson's Old Church on the Green (built in 1860).</font></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18915" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_98" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_280" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_99" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_288" style="font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_284" style="font-weight: bold;">Phạm Thị Huệ</span> is a graduate of the Vietnam National Conservatory of Music in Hanoi, Vietnam's most prestigious conservatory, where she majored in <span style="font-style: italic;">đàn tỳ
bà</span> (pear-shaped lute) performance. Later mastering the <span style="font-style: italic;">đàn đáy</span> (long-necked trapezoid lute), she has become a prominent figure in the effort to preserve and promote Vietnam's ancient tradition of <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span>, often appearing in newspapers and on television. The proprietor of a <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span> house in Hanoi's historic old quarter, she gives regular performances with her teachers, Nguyễn Thị Chúc and Nguyễn Phú Đẹ (aged 83 and 90) and the most gifted students from her private academy.</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_105" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_33_1370794820465_294" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span
style="font-size: 13px;"><font class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_218">Huệ is in Cleveland (her first time in the U.S.) from April through June 2013, sponsored by The Cleveland Foundation's Creative Fusion international artist residency program. She is hosted by Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio which has engaged her in many workshops with youth in the Cleveland public schools and connected her to local musicians as well. </font>Her visit represents only the second time a <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span> artist has come to perform in the United States and share this musical tradition, and her performances will be the first-ever solo <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span> recitals in this country.</span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_108" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div
id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18912" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_109" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18911" style="font-size: 13px;">For her Hudson performance, Huệ will be joined by her 14-year-old daughter <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nguyễn Huệ Phương</span>, herself a promising singer, having studied <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span> intensively since the age of 5 and taking courses at the National Conservatory.</font></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18912" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_289" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18912" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;">For a cross-cultural finale in the
spirit of Creative Fusion, Huệ will perform a piece for <span style="font-style: italic;">đàn đáy</span> and Chinese <span style="font-style: italic;">sheng</span> (mouth organ) with David Badagnani of the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble.<br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_112" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_113" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;">The performance will be followed by a reception featuring a tasting of several rare Vietnamese green and flower-scented teas, as well as a selection of Vietnamese cakes and pastries.</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_114" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div
id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18909" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_115" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18908" style="font-size: 13px;">The concert is made possible by Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio through The Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Program, an urban-based international artist residency program that brings up to twelve international artists to Northeast Ohio each year for three-month residencies with area cultural institutions. Invited artists get the opportunity to develop new work and share a contemporary view of their culture with our community.</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_116" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_117" style="font-size: 16px; background-color:
transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;">More about the Creative Fusion program:</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_118" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/category/creative-fusion/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/category/creative-fusion/</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_120" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">More about Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio:</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yaneo.org/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline:
0px;">http://www.yaneo.org/</a><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_313" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"><br></font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_121" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;">Videos of Phạm Thị Huệ:</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_122" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRTFe0LlqDk" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRTFe0LlqDk</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_124" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CatruVietnam/videos" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size:
13px;">http://www.youtube.com/user/CatruVietnam/videos</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_126" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;"> </font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_127" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 13px;">Phạm Thị Huệ websites:</font></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_128" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://catruthanglong.com/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://catruthanglong.com/</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_130" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/Catruthanglong" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size:
13px;">https://www.facebook.com/Catruthanglong</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_132" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/huecatru" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">https://www.facebook.com/huecatru</a><br></span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_132" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pham-Thi-Hue-Page/188671537843841" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pham-Thi-Hue-Page/188671537843841</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_134" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_135"
style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Wikipedia article:</span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_136" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Th%E1%BB%8B_Hu%E1%BB%87" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phạm_Thị_Huệ</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_138" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_139" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Article about Huệ's visit to Cleveland:</span></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_140" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/2013/05/three-clouds-coming-together/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/2013/05/three-clouds-coming-together/</a></div><div class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_142" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18948" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_143" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Videos about <span style="font-style: italic;">ca trù</span>:</span></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18944" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_145" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18943"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz35icN-stA"
id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18942" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz35icN-stA</a></font></div><div id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18940" class="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_40_1370802525160_147" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18939"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMGWe74__KA" id="yiv0305933624yui_3_7_2_1_1370794820465_18938" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMGWe74__KA</a></font></div></div></body></html>