This year’s festival attracted more than 400 professional and amateur artists, who are Tay, Nung, and Thai ethnic minorities living, studying, and working in Hanoi city, and Cao Bang, Bac Giang, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan, Ha Giang, Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Son La, Dak Nong, Dak Lak, and Lam Dong provinces.

The Son La art troupe consisted of 25 delegates and artists, participating in developing a folk singing and dance and traditional musical instrument concerto programme that features the characteristics of the Then singing art form of the White Thai people in the province; parading on the streets of Hanoi; exhibiting photos featuring Then singing and Tinh musical instrument; performing and introducing this form of art.

The festival aimed to honour the fine traditional values ​​of the ethnic people, and create conditions for artists to meet and share experience, thus contributing to raising awareness of preserving and maintaining the ethnic cultural identity.

With these achievements, the Son La provincial art troupe received a certificate of merit from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.