Their "Singing for Hung's smiles" programme, performed at Bastille Square, aimed to raise funds for a three-year-old leukemia patient, Vu Thai Hung, who is under treatment in Singapore with an estimated treatment cost of 150,000 euros.

The Association of Vietnamese youth in France prepared several Vietnamese traditional cusines and all proceedings from the event will go to the fund for the patient.

Initiated in 1982 by Jacques Lang, then French Minister of Culture, the music festival has become an international event which is held annually in 120 countries worldwide with 18,000 performances and participation of 800,000 professional musicians.