Yerevan's Music Festival to host French, U.S., Scottish bands June 20, 2011 - 16:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - French, U.S. and Scottish bands will participate in Yerevan-hosted Music Festival due June 21. Bratsch, a French-based music ensemble, formed in 1975 by guitarist Dan Gharibian will perform a concert in Cafesjian Center for the Arts. An Gordonach Scottish band and American singer Sima Cunningham will perform in Yerevan's lover's park. The Music Festival was first held in 1982 in France with the sponsorship of Francois Mitterrand, and further celebrated in different cities worldwide. The festival has been marked in Armenia since 2007. Orange Armenia acts as festival sponsors in 2011, similarly to 2010. 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. |