Decades after writing antiwar songs, Dylan to play first Vietnam concert
edmontonjournal.com | Mar 16th 2011
Legendary American singer Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the 1960s
anti-Vietnam War era, will play his first concert in the communist country
next month.
"The show is on," Brett Davis, a spokesman for the promoters, told AFP,
adding the culture ministry had given its approval.
The event is to take place on April 10 at RMIT University in southern Ho Chi
Minh City, said a separate statement from the promoter, Saigon Sound System.
General admission tickets cost $50 US, slightly less than an average monthly
wage.
Davis said the venue has a capacity of 8,000.
Organizers are anticipating "a good mix" of foreign fans and Vietnamese.
About half of Vietnam's youthful population is under 30, giving them no
memory of the war era that helped Dylan rocket to fame.
Songs such as Masters of War, Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are
A-Changin' became anthems for the United States counterculture, but were
written in the early '60s before the peak of American military involvement
in the southeast Asian country.
Dylan, who turns 70 in May, is to visit Vietnam as part of an Asian tour
that will also take him to China for the first time.
The last American combat troops left Vietnam in March 1973 and the war ended
two years later with the communist victory that reunified the country.
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