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Music: Shirin Jaun by Gul Yaru from Xinjiang/Uyghur region in China, Nuoruz...
Click here to view the embedded video Uyghurs are a Turkic people of Central Asia, Uyghur language today shows considerable Persian influence as a result from Chagatai, including numerous Persian...
View ArticleMusic: Hotel California dedicated to Eagles by Farhad Besharati
Click here to view the embedded video Farhad Besharati is a Persian Kanun player who fuses traditional Persian music with contemporary flair. A Kanun is Persian instrument that looks very much like an...
View ArticleMusic: Tabriz concert, Arshin Mal Alan Opera
Click here to view the embedded video Arshin Mal Alan is a 1913 comic and romantic operetta by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov about the cloth peddler in the 1900s Shusha, who is looking for a...
View ArticleMusic: Mohammad Reza Mortazavi plays Balal-Balal with tombak at the Berlin...
Click here to view the embedded video Mohammad Reza Mortazavi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1978. His parents – both musicians – enabled him to take tombak drum lessons at the age of six (tombak is...
View ArticleMusic: Uzbekistan’s Yulduz Usmonova, Namekuni
Click here to view the embedded video As Uzbekistan’s most popular singer, she regularly appeared in concerts and has released several albums. In 2008, Usmonova emigrated to Turkey citing...
View ArticleMusic – Tajikistan patriotic poems
Click here to view the embedded video Tajik music is closely related to Central Asian forms. The classical music is shash-maqam (six-modes in Persian). Dastgah being the name for Persian modes, and...
View ArticleMusic: Kayvan Saket plays Tar and Shushtari Persian Dance
Click here to view the embedded video Born in 1960 in Mashad, Iran, Mr. Kayvan Saket’s musical experience began during his elementary school years while performing with the Music Workshop on national...
View ArticleMusic: Rastak Group, Folkloric
Click here to view the embedded video Rastak a new ensemble for contemporary Persian folk music was formed as an experimental music group in 1997. The group seeks to collect, record and interpret...
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Belly Dance with Rachel Brice
Click here to view the embedded video Rachel Brice is a contemporary innovator in Tribal Fusion Style Belly Dance based in San Francisco. Serpentine – Belly Dance with Rachel Brice: Belly Dance...
View ArticleMusic: Sepideh Raissadat, Ze Farvardin
Click here to view the embedded video Born in Tehran, Iran in 1980, Sepideh Raissadat is an Iranian classical singer. Sepideh began studying Radif (the Repertoire of the Persian classical music) at the...
View ArticleVideo: Tajikistan Nowruz 2011 celeberations
Click here to view the embedded video Tajiks consider Nowruz as their biggest Celebration of the year. In Tajikistan, Nowruz is celebrated and observed for five days. Tajikistanis from all ethnic...
View ArticleNovruz in the residence of U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan
Click here to view the embedded video Ambassador Matthew Bryza graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International relations, Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from...
View ArticleGreen Dance, Bowers Museum’s Norouz Festival 2011
Click here to view the embedded video “Spread Peace & Embrace Unity of All Human Kinds” Dance choreographed by Anna Djanbazian, Djanbazian Dance Company. “This dance is all about the Green...
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