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The international jew’s harp performers competition will be held in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha-Yakutia from 16-17 June 2022. 

More than 40 participants from 14 countries and 11 regions of Russia are to take part in the III International competition-festival of jew’s harp (khomus/vargan) players "World Virtuoso Khomusist". 

The international competition of performers on the jew’s harp "World Virtuoso Khomusist" has a long history. It took place only twice in Yakutsk during the International Jew’s Harp Congress-Festivals in 1991 and 2011. 

According to the results of the two previous competition...

Tran Quang Hai has died on 29 December 2021 at the age of 77.
He was a man of love, loving all expressions of life.
He had the soul of an innocent child, with all its curiosity, enthusiasm and vulnerability.
He was a man full of humour, always with a smile in his face and prepared to laugh.
He was a real entertainer, achieving well-acclaimed peaks when singing Beethoven’s “Ode an die Freude” in one-breath-overtone-technique, or when artistically playing the spoons, or when grooving with his self-designed jew’s harp.

Born on 13 May 1944 in Vietnam, Tran Quang Hai studied at the National Conserv...