 A free two-day Korean Folk Music Grand Festival will take place from June 22 at 11:00am in Jongmyo Park in Jongro, Seoul featuring some 120 classical musicians, to honor the music streets where traditional vocal arts were nurtured. They will showcase the Korean classical opera "Bbangpajeon," followed by "Chunhyangjeon" and drum dancing from Jindo on the first day, and traditional exorcism practices, Pansori and Gyeonggi folk songs on the following day.
Seoul Kugak High School students, Jo Geum-aeng, Kim Ji-hee, Choi Chang-nam who specialize in Gyeonggi folk songs, and Hwang Yong-ju specializing in Seonsori ballads will star in "Bbangpajeon." The director of the Traditional Korean Arts Preservation Association, Jo Yeong-suk will star in the Korean classical opera "Chunhyangjeon" along with human cultural asset Lee Eun-ju and Kim Beok-guk.
The host and director of the Traditional Folk Streets Association Jeong Ok-hyang said the event was programmed for passers-by to spontaneously enjoy Korean classical music, adding that in the past, he gave away rice-cakes and traditional liquor Makoli, but this year would like to upgrade it in a more solid and sophisticated way.
Sugung-ga, a master singer, who trained under Pansori artist Jeong Gwang-su as an assistant teacher said the streets of Korean classical music were places where the top five modern master singers of Korean folk song, including Song Man-gab, Im Bang-ul, and Kim Chang-hwan staged performances.
The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts and Korean classical musician incubators studied on the streets, Jeong added, saying now is the time for Korean classical musicians to gather forces and make the streets dotted with training classes and instruments stores into "streets of tradition."
(Kim Yong-un, proarte@chosun.com )
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