Japanese audience braved the rain to watch Vietnamese saxophone artist perform

On June 13 and 14, saxophone artist Nguyen Bao Anh (stage name Taruki Sax) brought 3 emotional performances at the World Exhibition EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai (Japan), attracting thousands of domestic and foreign audiences.

Japanese audiences braved the rain to watch saxophone artist Nguyen Bao Anh perform.

Notably, at the outdoor performance, despite the heavy rain, many Japanese audiences still held umbrellas and stood to watch the entire performance of the Vietnamese artists, creating an emotional and memorable scene.

The program is part of a series of cultural promotion activities of the Vietnam Exhibition House at EXPO 2025, with the theme "Saxophone Across Cultures: Vietnam Meets Japan". Here, Nguyen Bao Anh performed outstanding music from the album "Thanh am thoi gian", a product released at the end of 2024, showing the fusion between traditional Vietnamese music and contemporary Japanese style.

The audience was engrossed in Bao Anh's saxophone playing.

Nguyen Bao Anh is currently one of the outstanding young saxophone artists in Vietnam, having performed with big names and won the "Outstanding Saxophone Performer" award at the National Band Festival in 2023.

At EXPO 2025, in addition to two solo performances, he also had a performance with two Japanese-Portuguese guitarists on the rooftop of the Portuguese Pavilion, one of the most unique stages of the exhibition.

Although they only met for the first time and had little time to practice, the 3 artists from 3 cultures combined well, bringing the soulful song "Innocence" to a standing ovation from the audience.

“I’ve seen Taruki Sax on YouTube, but I didn’t expect his live performance to be so much more emotional. Even though it was raining, I still wanted to hear him perform until the end,” said Miyuki, an audience member from Osaka.

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/khan-gia-nhat-doi-mua-xem-nghe-si-saxophone-viet-bieu-dien-post799555.html