Archive for the 'Music' Category
The State of Emergency continues, and right on Freedom Square Astral Club continues its parties. It seemed strange to me in the beginning, but the organizer of the Rock on Thursday parties Narek Bakhtamyan told me things for him continued just the same as before.
Also, this week a new pub The Beatles Blackbird opened, and I post some photos from the opening night.
The new Beatles pub opened a couple of days ago, and the Bambir band played at its opening. The pub is on Pushkin street in the centre of Yerevan and for me personally is a place I was waiting for, especially that the bloggers’ favorite place, the Shamrock pub, was closed these days for some reason.
Continue reading ‘State of Emergency makes no difference for some’
As another musical update, this one is about my favourite, the Bambir band. The good news about this band is that a new drummer has joined them, which resulted in a quick assembly of a one-hour program with new songs. This was greatly awaited, as I sometimes hear people complaining that they want new stuff, well here you go.
Continue reading ‘The Bambir band with new drummer, new songs’
The first Armenian reggae band Reincarnation presented its first CD on 17 November.
All people present looked really excited, and I could feel this particular proud that we’re opening ourselves to new styles. Roland is the leader of the band, his songs are in Armenian.
Continue reading ‘Reggae in Armenia’
The hope of the people gathered on Freedom Square on 26 October to cheer for Levon Ter-Petrosyan came true as he announced that he will run for presidency again in 2008. The joint rally of oppositional leaders Aram Sargsyan, Stepan Demirchyan and first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan gathered around 10,000 people, enough to cover the whole square. A simultaneous concert half and hour away from the Freedom Square was a contrast to this event.
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First of all, apologies for all the lost information and comments, but we are starting over and things will be fine I’m sure.
Last Wednesday on Oct 17 an event was organized finally away from the centre of Yerevan. In the South-Western district of Yerevan, which we call Bangladesh, the Stand Up and Speak Up call gathered people from several regions of Armenia and Yerevan. The amount of people present surprised me.
Continue reading ‘Bangladesh in Yerevan against poverty’
This time photographs from Onnik Krikorian of the latest rock event, organized by Sksela movement. The event was generally enjoyed as rock gatherings always are, but raised some controversial opinions because of its security. Several photos here, and more can be viewed in Onnik’s post.
Continue reading ‘Sksela rocks for freedom’
On my travel to Gyumri last week I got to visit some Gyumri premises together with the Bambir band. And those were the Gyumri Drama Theatre and the Shant Radio. The theatre looked quite empty on the day we were there, but usually there are rehearsals going on and the plays, although still performed in an old style of playing, do go on.
Then it was Shant Radio were the band was invited to speak during a rock show called Underground.
Continue reading ‘Gyumri Theatre and Radio overview’
The rock concert in Shushi, Nagornyy Karabakh, on Sept 16th was quite surprising and inspiring as well. The festival, organized by the Shushi Revival Fund, included four bands from Armenia and one from Shushi. As Narek Bambir said, the town was hungry for music, and for any social and cultural activity in general.
Continue reading ‘Shushi Rocks’
As Julie told me, who is one of the organizers of yesterday’s Music Fair, this fair is popular with some countries in Europe, so this time they decided to organize it here in Yerevan. Things went on in the centre, almost all of the concerts were on Abovyan street.
Any musicians were invited to play, professional or amateur, but the way I saw it, the amateurs decided not to test their luck. Who knows, maybe later, after all this was the first fair of this kind.
Continue reading ‘Fête de la musique in Armenia’
