Sydney’s Lunar New Year celebrations are shaping as some of its biggest after long-held travel restrictions and COVID-19 measures ended in time for the Year of the Rabbit (or the Cat, in Vietnam), which started on Sunday.
Sydney’s Lunar New Year celebrations are shaping as some of its biggest after long-held travel restrictions and COVID-19 measures ended in time for the Year of the Rabbit , which started on Sunday.
As a result, Willoughby Mayor Tanya Taylor said Chatswood’s Lunar New Year festivities could draw their biggest-ever crowds. Many Chinese and Vietnamese families will have held a reunion dinner on Saturday night with extended relatives who have travelled from far and wide to ring in the new year.It is one of Chinese folk musician Fuhua Li’s favourite parts of the festival, and this year it is particularly special: Li has been finally reunited with his wife, who emigrated from Beijing to Sydney’s Eastwood with their son in 2021.
Li will play at Chatswood’s Legends and Lanterns New Year concert on February 4. His instrument is the erhu, a Chinese two-stringed bow instrument to which he was first exposed at age seven in his home town of Shanghai.Li said the staging of the erhu with western instruments such as the violin and cello – played by internationally renowned Australian artists Li-Wei Qin and Harmonnia Junus – was innovative and “totally new” for him.“Music has no borders.
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