Former Yes musician Rick Wakeman performs a piano concert for rescued moon bears at a sanctuary in Vietnam, with video shared by outlets covering the event. He plays on a Yamaha grand piano placed at the Animals Asia facility in Tam Dao National Park, in front of bear enclosures.
The concert is presented as part of a broader effort to raise awareness about moon bears kept in cages at so-called “bile farms” in Vietnam. One report describes the bears as 150 in number, while another refers to 125 animals still confined in cages. The outlets link the performance to Animals Asia’s campaign to highlight the welfare of bears used for bile extraction.
While the sources focus on the unusual audience and the live musical setting, they differ slightly on the figures mentioned—some citing the number of bears at the sanctuary and others citing the estimated number of bears still caged—without disputing the purpose of the awareness campaign.
