Musicians for Peace festival to be held on the shore of Lake SevanAugust 11, 2009 - 21:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Musicians for Peace festival on the shore of the Lake Sevan will gather 75 young musicians from Armenia, Georgia and England on August 28 . The festival is aimed to develop cooperation between international organizations and local musical groups, as well as to present modern entertainment resources and rich cultural traditions of Armenia to international community and world tourism market. In the neighborhood of the Sevan-based "Miami" resort area Armenian rock and blues performers, including Forsh, "D minor", "Cross roads", "Reincarnation", "Dorians" and "Bambir", the Georgian Group "String" , "Backur", "Smile" and "Jumbalend", as well as the "Amtista" from the UK. The festival is organized by the "Forsh and Friends" company with support of the ministry of economy of Armenia. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |