The second Hamazkayin Eastern USA Music Festival was held June 25-28 in Washington, D.C., welcoming more than 40 young ...

YEREVAN, APRIL 16, ARMENPRESS. The history of Armenian music, Armenian musical instruments is already taught as a separate subject in the Music Education Professional College of the Argentine city of ...

In order to perform and ‘conceal’ jazz, musicians translated the names of the Jazz Standards into the local language and added elements of local folk music into their performances. Note: Originally ...

It is not often you come across a musician whose work feels like a bridge—between cultures, centuries, and inner worlds. Levon Eskenian, the Armenian musician and artistic director behind the ...

One of the first times that Ara Dinkjian performed on stage with his father was in New York City during the 1964 World’s Fair. Dressed in a costume that his mother sewed consisting of baggy pants, a ...

Armenian musican Benik Iknatyan playing the duduk(Hrair Hratchian. Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY/4.0/ ) In the 1990s, the duduk found its way into movie soundtracks, radio ...

Somewhere, there's home-movie footage of a three-year-old Tigran Hamasyan at his childhood home in rural Armenia. He is listening to Black Sabbath's Paranoid and freaking out on a toy guitar. "That ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the countries of Europe and their neighboring empires were entering into a period of intense ethnic awareness. Nations were on the brink of a revolutionary ...

For the past few years, the Armenian American musician Arshag Chookoorian has been working through memorabilia stored in his family’s garage that tell a remarkable story of an unsung entertainer’s ...

Hovhannes Shahbazyan took top honors as best male vocalist and Zaruhi Babayan headed the list as best female vocalist of the year at the fifth annual Armenian Music Awards. * Best Alternative Folk ...

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