By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, August 26– A joint statement by one of the most famous Armenian musicians, Armenian duduk player Djivan Gasparyan and Turkish folk singer Yavuz Bingol, revealed that a concert scheduled to be given on September 1 in Istanbul, Turkey was cancelled. According to Hürriyet Daily News, Gasparyan said that the Organizing Committee [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–The second semifinal of Eurovision-2010 will be held this evening in Oslo. Singer Eva Rivas representing Armenia will be the second to perform. Among the participants of the second semi-final are performers from Lithuania, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia and Turkey. And of course, the [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), May 20—The representative of Armenia at Eurovision Eva Rivas is pleased with her first rehearsal held on stage in Oslo, where the music contest Eurovision-2010 is going to start soon. The Armenian delegation left for Oslo on May 17. For Eurovision-2010, Eva Rivas is going to present her song “Apricot Stone.” The music [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 26—On Saturday evening, April 24, for the first time in the history of Turkey, Turkish intelligentsia conducted an unprecedented campaign dedicated to the memory of victims of 1915. The campaign took place on Taksim Square in central Istanbul. The well-known representatives of the Turkish intellectuals who had earlier spread a statement entitled [...]
YEREVAN (News.am), April 12–At a press conference on Saturday the world-famous Armenian tenor Vanno Tadeo said that he will give a concert on May 7 in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Stepanakert. “The concert will take place on May 7 and will be dedicated to the liberation of Shushi. I am very grateful to the Minister [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), April 2—World famous duduk player Djivan Gasparyan expressed his dissatisfaction with the current Armenian legislation on the protection of copyright. “Today, we must cleanse our market from illegal, pirated products. To do this we need to adopt a law that will punish those who are engaged in an unlicensed activity that violates the [...]
BY NANORE BARSOUMIAN (Armenian Weekly) February 25–On Feb. 14, ARMTV, Armenia’s public television company, held the country’s national final to select the winner(s) that will represent Armenia at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway from May 25-29. The event took place in the National Opera Theatre in Yerevan and was broadcast live. Nine [...]
