Archive for the ‘Jazz’ Category

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Dance of Fire

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

While out shopping for more CD’s and MP3 collections yesterday, I couldn’t resist buying a copy of Dance of Fire by Aziza Mustafa Zadeh for a very good friend of mine. Saying this is bound to get me into trouble, but what the heck. My choice of present was greeted with approval from the young […]

Katie Melua — Piece by Piece

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

After a meeting with yet another European academic visiting Armenia to research the Yezidi minority in the country I had some time to kill and decided to browse the CD/DVD shops on Yerevan’s central Abovian Street. Wasn’t expecting much as pretty much all of them stock the same tedious selection. Therefore, I was pleasantly suprised […]

Armenian Navy Band, The Cascade, International Children’s Day

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Armenian Navy Band, International Children’s Day, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2006

As an excellent way to end International Children’s Day, Arto Tuncboyajian’s Armenian Navy Band opened a free concert at The Cascade in Yerevan. The group came second in the Europe Category for this year’s BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, but came first in the Audience Award Category.

Armenian Navy Band, International Children’s Day, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2006