ARMENIAN GUITAR-2009 FESTIVAL STARTS IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2009 19:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The festival "Armenian Guitar-2009" started in
the Yerevan Academic Theater after Gabriel Sundukyan. According
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, the 5-hour-long concert was opened by the
"Dogma" group and guitarist Henry Grigorian.

The first such a large-scale festival present the public perfomances of
13 guitarists and other musical instrument players, who will perform
the own work each and will participate in 4 jam sessions – dialogues
of guitarists. Each jam session will involve three guitarists.

May Lian (Yuri Mayilyan) (Russia) will perform in the first part of
the concert with other guitarists, Dave Martoun (Canada) will play
in the second part.

Music of different genres: jazz, rock, jazz-rock, blues, fusion,
metal, as well as progressive music will be brought to the festival.

"I thank the organizers of the festival, as they have done a great job,
gathering so many talented guitarists. I really hope the festival
will become a platform for promoting electric guitar, Armenia does
not have a school of electric guitar, but the demand is obvious,
" lyricist Gisane Palian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.