The US Embassy in Hanoi has announced that a US jazz band called “The Student Loan” will be in Vietnam from February 27 to March 1.

This band is scheduled to perform at the Japan-Vietnam Culture Palace in Ha Long City at 8 pm on February 28 and then at the Youth Theater in Hanoi at 8pm on March 1. In addition to their performance they will also give lectures to more than 200 students and teachers at the National University of Art Education while staying in the capital city.

Formed in the spring of 2005 in Bowling Green, Ohio, “The Student Loan” concentrates mainly on the mixture of traditional bluegrass with the elements of rock, jazz and blues. It therefore has a new but familiar style, which makes its genre hard to classify.

The four members of the jazz band are: Liz Chibucos (guitar, violin, and vocals), Mark Gerolami (banjo, guitar, and vocals), Julio Appling (bass and vocals), and Chad Kimbler (mandolin and vocals).

Besides their own compositions, they also play the music of Bill Monroe, The Beatles and Phish & Sublime.

Their songs can be enjoyed at: http://jalc.org/TheRoadnoFI/embassy1109.html.