After nearly five decades of singing about a war that still haunts Americans, tonight musical legend Bob Dylan is finally getting to play to a Vietnamese audience in Ho Chi Minh City.
“Bob Dylan's music opened up a path where music was used as a weapon to oppose the war in Vietnam, the weapon was used against injustice and racism,” said Tran Long An, 67, vice president of the Vietnam Composers' Association.
An was a student in the former Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, during the war and took to the streets with other Communist sympathisers calling for the killing to stop. He remains a big Dylan fan.
Sunday's concert follows the 10th anniversary of the death of anti-war Vietnamese folk singer Trinh Cong Son, who was known internationally as the ‘Bob Dylan of Vietnam’.
