"Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ & Blood Moon Orchestra: Harps of Asia" is at 7 and 9 p.m. Jan. 17 in The Studio, Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford University. Tickets are $15-$45 at live.stanford.edu.
Bach Yen got her start in Saigon for a cosmopolitan audience, learning nightclub standards in English, French, Spanish and Italian, in addition to Vietnamese.