The Tehran-The 40th International Fajr Music Festival begins Tuesday afternoon in Tehran and will be performed by six international musicians and bands at the weekly event.
Musicians and bands from Turkey, Spain, India, the Netherlands, Tunisian and Armenian will be participating in the festival. Tehran’s Vahdat Hall will hold all international performances, Irna reported.
Turkish cellist Jamal Aliyev and pianist Ese Dadastan will perform on February 12th, with performances by Spanish flamenco guitarists Daniel Casares and Antonio Maldonado being planned on the same day.
Pavan Shrikant Naik, Ram Deshpande, Vivek Samuel and Amano Manish are Indian music artists who will perform on February 13th and 14th.
The Dutch Afro-Anatoria story and Iranian Nushband will perform on February 15th.
Sjahin and Bram Stadshouders from the Netherlands and Bence Huszar from Hungary are members of the Afro-Anatolia story.
Iranian musicians in the Nushe band include Niusha Barimani, Rokhsareh Rostami, Niloofar Ebrahimi, Donya Fathi, Azin Malekzadeh and Setareh Hatef.
Another performance is also scheduled for February 15th, when Vahadat Hall hosts Armenia’s Levon Tevanyan.
The final international performance will be delivered by Farafersi from Tunisia on February 16th. She plays Kanun, a Middle Eastern string instrument played in Iran, the eastern Arab world and most of the Arab Maghreb region in North Africa.
The 40th International Fazil Music Festival is organized by the Arts Issues of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Leader in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, the Iranian Music Association and the Music Bureau of Rudaki Foundation.
Showing and respecting the best works of Iranian musicians, promoting the art of music, strengthening audience preferences and listening culture, maintaining a national identity rooted in religious and Iranian teachings, especially the younger generations. We aim to support ideas and performance by. Identify and enhance the shapes and content quality of music in a variety of genres.
In addition to international participants, 100 Iranian bands, including over 1,400 musicians, will be appearing at the festival this year.
The festival will be held in Tehran from February 11th to 17th in two competitive and non-competitive sections.
Photo: Tunisian’s Farah Fersi plays Kanun in a photograph without a date.
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