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MARIAM MATOSSIAN IS NOMINATED FOR TWO CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.02.2009 22:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Canadian-Armenian singer Mariam Matossian is
nominated for two Canadian Folk Music Awards, GreenvilleOnline.com
reports. The singer says non-Armenians have been the first ones
to truly embrace her music. "They may not understand the words I'm
singing, but they love the music." She describes her shows -- she
has performed at festivals and concerts in Canada and the United
States -- as storytelling with music. "My grandmother's favorites,
I learned from my mother." The subject matter is universal; they are
songs that tell of yearning, of homesickness, of love and loss.
Mariam Matossian's first album, the 2004 "Far From Home," is dedicated
to the memory of her grandmother, Mariam Der Hovaginian Markarian,
after whom she is named. Matossian adds that longing for country is
why she named her first album "Far From Home." It received frequent
airplay on CBC Radio and was named among the top 25 essential albums
of the year by "Echoes," a daily, two-hour radio program hosted by
John Diliberto and distributed in the United States by Public Radio
International. Her 2007 follow-up, "In the Light," has been equally
well received by the public.
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.02.2009 22:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Canadian-Armenian singer Mariam Matossian is
nominated for two Canadian Folk Music Awards, GreenvilleOnline.com
reports. The singer says non-Armenians have been the first ones
to truly embrace her music. "They may not understand the words I'm
singing, but they love the music." She describes her shows -- she
has performed at festivals and concerts in Canada and the United
States -- as storytelling with music. "My grandmother's favorites,
I learned from my mother." The subject matter is universal; they are
songs that tell of yearning, of homesickness, of love and loss.
Mariam Matossian's first album, the 2004 "Far From Home," is dedicated
to the memory of her grandmother, Mariam Der Hovaginian Markarian,
after whom she is named. Matossian adds that longing for country is
why she named her first album "Far From Home." It received frequent
airplay on CBC Radio and was named among the top 25 essential albums
of the year by "Echoes," a daily, two-hour radio program hosted by
John Diliberto and distributed in the United States by Public Radio
International. Her 2007 follow-up, "In the Light," has been equally
well received by the public.