Ronan Keating of Boyzone to perform in Hanoi

Boyzone singer Ronan Keating and South Korean hip-hop trio Epik High are expected to draw crowds to Hay Fest 2023 at Yen So Park on September 29 and 30.

Renowned Irish singer Ronan Keating. Photo: VOV/Getty Image

According to the organizers, Hay Fest 2023 will include two nights of concerts, with the official show on September 30. Meanwhile, the concert on September 29 would open the stage to local and international artists.

The music festival will feature more than 20 Vietnamese and foreign artists, including two judges of Rap Viet season 3, Suboi and Justatee; other local and overseas Vietnamese singers such as Hoang Dung, Trung Quan, Vinh Khuat, Thinh Suy, rapper MCK, Gigi Huong Giang, and others.

Fans from the millennial generation are eagerly awaiting the performances of Ronan Keating, who rose to fame with the Irish boy band Boyzone, which had a string of hits in the 1990s and sold 25 million records worldwide by 2013.

During the music festival in Hanoi, Keating will perform a collection of songs familiar to Vietnamese audiences, such as When You Say Nothing At All, Love Me For A Reason and No Matter What.

The trio of Epik High from South Korea.

The Irish singer had previously visited Vietnam to perform on the final night of the Miss Earth 2010 beauty pageant in Nha Trang City, the central province of Khanh Hoa.

Boyzone was Europe's most successful boy band in the second half of the 1990s, consisting of five Irish vocalists. The group was active between 1993 and 2000 before taking a hiatus from 2001 to 2007, then regrouping in 2007.

In 2018, it was announced that the band would break up for good following their 25th-anniversary celebrations, which ended in 2019.

The 10-hour music festival will also feature Epik High, the South Korean trio performing in Vietnam for the first time.

Consisting of Tablo, Mithra Jin, and DJ TuKutz, the band has built its own "music empire" over 20 years of performing, with a huge fan base in Asia and around the world.