Sayat Nova festival will kick off on June 16 in Tbilisi and will end on June 18 in Yerevan. It has been held for the second time.

Within the frames of the festival Armenian musicians will be hosted in Tbilisi St Gevorg Church. The participants will mainly perform works of Sayat Nova. Nino Aptsiauri, Senior Advisor of the Georgian Embassy to Armenia, specialist in Armenian studies, says,

“We together celebrate the festival of Sayat Nova. Sayat Nova belongs not only to Armenians, but also Georgians. He is a great musician and poet and is a poet with regional cognizance; he is a founder of minstrel poetry, and the works of Sayat Nova are taught at Georgian universities,” she says.