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FRENCH SINGER PATRICIA KASS VISITS YEREVAN BRANDY COMPANY
YEREVAN, March 10. / ARKA /. French singer Patricia Kass who sang for
Armenian audience on March 9 visited today the French-owned Yerevan
Brandy Company (YBC). She and other French musicians visited the aging
cellar of the plant and were told its history and production process.
The French stopped near the "Barrel of Peace," filled in 2001. It
contains brandy spirit produced in 1994, when Armenia and Azerbaijan
signed an agreement to end hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. The barrel
will be opened on the day when the peace agreement will be signed.
The executive director of the YBC Artak Barseghyan presented the
singer with Ararat brandy, released in a limited quantity. Ararat
was the general sponsor of yesterday's concert.
The concert that gave start to a two-month series of Francophonie
events in Armenia was organized by international music festival Yerevan
Perspectives with the assistance of the embassy of France in Armenia
and Yerevan Brandy Factory under the patronage of the ministry of
foreign affairs of Armenia.
The Yerevan Brandy Factory was founded in 1887. In 1998 it was sold
to French Pernod Ricard for $30 million. -0-
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YEREVAN, March 10. / ARKA /. French singer Patricia Kass who sang for
Armenian audience on March 9 visited today the French-owned Yerevan
Brandy Company (YBC). She and other French musicians visited the aging
cellar of the plant and were told its history and production process.
The French stopped near the "Barrel of Peace," filled in 2001. It
contains brandy spirit produced in 1994, when Armenia and Azerbaijan
signed an agreement to end hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. The barrel
will be opened on the day when the peace agreement will be signed.
The executive director of the YBC Artak Barseghyan presented the
singer with Ararat brandy, released in a limited quantity. Ararat
was the general sponsor of yesterday's concert.
The concert that gave start to a two-month series of Francophonie
events in Armenia was organized by international music festival Yerevan
Perspectives with the assistance of the embassy of France in Armenia
and Yerevan Brandy Factory under the patronage of the ministry of
foreign affairs of Armenia.
The Yerevan Brandy Factory was founded in 1887. In 1998 it was sold
to French Pernod Ricard for $30 million. -0-
- See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/society/french_singer_patricia_kass_visits_yerevan_brandy_ company/#sthash.00AGjGgw.dpuf