Alvin Atkinson and The Sound Merchants quartet to perform in YerevanMarch 9, 2009 - 21:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Jazz drummer Alvin Atkinson and The Sound Merchants quartet will perform in Yerevan on March 14. The concert will be conducted within the framework of annual Jazz Days organized by US Embassy in Armenia.Alvin Atkinson and the Sound Merchants define their music as a mixture of hard jazz an blues with inflections of world music and gospel. In 2007, the group toured the Middle East through the Rhythm Road Jazz Ambassadors Tour. Alvin has been featured in concerts with various jazz masters. 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 | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. 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. |