Performers
Emê
Evelyn Mê-Linh (Emê) is an opera singer and musical theater performer who earned her B.M. in Vocal Performance from Chapman University and is a Master's candidate at NYU for Music Theatre Performance. She has trained with Broadway artists such as Wicked’s Kristin Chenoweth and the cast of The Phantom of the Opera. She enjoys performing Vietnamese songs for her community and hopes to inspire support for Vietnamese performers. She believes increasing Vietnamese representation in the performing arts will strengthen pride in our culture.
Hugo Nguyễn
Hugo Nguyen is a high school senior in the Popular Music Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA). Having taken music lessons in various disciplines from a young age, he interacted with many different genres and styles over the years, including pop, rock, R&B, and jazz. At OCSA, he is involved with MONTAGE!, the celebrated performance ambassadors of OCSA as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
Additionally, Hugo is experienced in arranging for vocal and instrumental ensembles, most recently arranging for horn and string sections featured in various performances at OCSA, and has been utilizing his talents serving as the arranger and musical director of the CS Music Showcase Team since 2021, in partnership with his peers in the Classical Voice Conservatory.
Alongside his contributions at OCSA, Hugo is also very involved in the Vietnamese community. His first experiences with music involve singing Vietnamese at home with his dad and watching other Vietnamese singers perform. He began performing Vietnamese music publicly at the age of 6, his first performanace being on SBTN's Tiếng Việt Mến Yêu and Thiếu Nhi Hùng Sử Ca competitions, both in which he placed first. Hugo placed second in the 2015 VSTAR Kids competition, which showcased the various talents of young Vietnamese-American children, an opportunity that led to an appearance on Paris by Night, a significant mainstay in entertainment for Vietnamese diaspora.
Today, Hugo continues to perform for Vietnamese audiences in Orange County and beyond. Hugo also contributes to the Vietnamese community through his involvement at Trung Tâm Văn Hoá Việt Nam, a Vietnamese language school in Westminster, where he volunteers as a teacher's assistant.
Hân Holiday
Hân Holiday, born and raised for the majority of her life in Saigon, Vietnam. Music came to her when she was three years old, and fifteen years later, it is still a source of inspiration and passion that burns on till this day. When Holiday was nine, she got into Saigon’s most prestigious music conservatory and studied under Duong Kim Dung, head of the guitar department, and became valedictorian.
After three diligent years studying within that competitive and professional music setting, she followed her family, as they immigrated to the USA, with the hopes and aspirations to further her music career. Even as a young musician, she has gotten numerous exposure to the profession and went on touring shows around the country, notably, the Ta Tinh show at Microsoft theater in Los Angeles.
Holiday also got the opportunity to collaborate with Hoang Kieu Production, an entertainment company owned by one of Vietnam’s most reputable billionaires. Her desire to give back to Vietnam’s underrepresented music community inspired her to begin offering music lessons to those in the Orange County area as well as online. She’s studying Bachelor program in Music Composition at Cal State Fullerton.
Sóng Xanh
Sóng Xanh is a vocal ensemble consisting of Vietnamese-Americans, most of whom were born in the US. Using music to explore their Vietnamese heritage, they want to use their singing as a bridge to connect with their audience, especially those born and raised in the US. Together, they aspire to share the love of and preserve the beauty of the Vietnamese language and music.
Sóng Xanh là một nhóm hát nhỏ gồm các bạn trẻ mà hầu hết các thành viên sinh ra tại Mỹ. Các em đều yêu thích tiếng Việt và mong muốn mang tiếng hát của mình làm một nhịp cầu nối đến các khán giả, đặc biệt đến các bạn sinh ra và trưởng thành tại Mỹ, để cùng nhau yêu mến và giữ gìn vẻ đẹp của tiếng Việt và âm nhạc Việt.
3âm
3âm is a performing arts trio who started as childhood friends sharing the same love for martial arts, vocals, dance, and choreography. Their performance today tells a story of beginnings, the story of the dragon and the fairy, Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ, through choreography that integrates martial arts as well as modern and traditional dance elements.
Though we come from different hearths, we are brother and sisters of one land; we are proud to embody the draconic and immortal heritage as we are…Con Rồng Cháu Tiên.