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    Panorama.am
    20:41 10/07/2009
    SHOGHAKEN FOLK ENSEMBLE PERFORMS IN SLOVAKIA FESTIVAL

    The Shoghaken Folk Ensemble, recent winners of the Best Folk Album
    award at the 2008 Armenian National Music Awards, performed at the
    Vychodna Folk Festival in Vychodna, Slovakia, as part of the
    Armenia-Slovakia cultural exchange program. The ensemble was
    accompanied to Slovakia by Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan and
    cultural attach Svetlana Sahakyan.

    Led by vocalists Hasmik Harutyunyan and Aleksan Harutyunyan and
    dudukist Gevorg Dabaghyan, the group performed Armenian song and dance
    as well as traditional Armenian ceremonies at the festival. At the
    opening concert, attended by Minister Hasmik Poghosyan, Shoghaken
    performed along with groups from Romania, Croatia, and the Czech
    Republic, each group presenting its countrys traditional folk
    music. At the close of the concert, Slovakias Culture Minister, Marek
    Madaric, thanked Shoghaken and presented Shoghaken members with a
    medal of appreciation.

    During the course of the their stay in Vychodna, Shoghaken performed
    at various festival locations, including in the village of Liptovsky
    Mikulas, where the musicians presented a concert of folk and
    ashoughagan (troubadour) songs in the courtyard of the medieval
    St. Nicolaus church. After the concert, the group gave interviews and
    recorded a short concert for Radio Slovensko.

    At the closing concert on July 5, Shoghaken treated the large outdoor
    audience to scenes from a traditional Armenian wedding, with the parts
    of the bride and groom played by young members of a folk group from
    Ukraine. With green and red ribbons draped over the grooms shoulders,
    Hasmik Harutyunyan sang Katsek, Berek and Aleksan Harutyunyan sang
    Ohrnyal Barerar and Kanachatsav, with the sounds of the zurna and dhol
    drifting into the mountains of Vychodna.

    Founded in 1994 in Yerevan, Armenia, Shoghaken is currently preparing
    f or concerts in Europe and Australia, as well as its first major
    concert in Yerevan, planned for Sept. 4, 2009.

    Source: Panorama.am


    http://www.panorama.am/en/culture/20 09/07/10/shoghaken/

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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