Armenia was one of two featured countries at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival last week in Washington D.C., and members of Los Angeles's own strong Armenian community were among those celebrating ...

Old Stories, New Retellings: Ara Sarkissian and Musaner’s Jazz Muses Inspire a Twist on Armenian Folk with Once Upon a Time “It’s about what you inherit,” declares Ara sarkissian, the composer and ...

Armenian musican Benik Iknatyan playing the duduk(Hrair Hratchian. Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY/4.0/ ) In the 1990s, the duduk found its way into movie soundtracks, radio ...

Though composer, singer and lyricist Daniel Decker is of Puerto Rican descent and was raised in New York, he has embraced an ...

Tigran Hamasyan reimagined his native homeland of Armenia through a traditional, folk-inspired jazz performance Sunday evening. Fourth-year music and political science student Kishan Patel said he ...

Minor keys and uncommon time signatures are the expressive stamps that give Armenian folk music its often eerie and impassioned quality. Saturday at the Getty Center, Zulal, an Armenian a capella folk ...

Armenian folk music has retained its compelling singularity for centuries, through all the tribulations faced by the nation and its people, but TmbaTa Orchestra show that a deep respect for this ...

Born 150 years ago, the Armenian priest and pioneering ethnomusicologist Komitas Vardapet singlehandedly forged his people’s vast and ancient musical legacy into a coherent collection, encompassing ...

The Arev Armenian Folk Ensemble will be featured in the first concert of the Armenian Museum of America’s Fall Concert Series, “Armenian Folk and Popular Music,” at 2 p.m. Oct. 30, on the third floor ...

The survival of Assyrian culture in Armenia is not merely a matter of history or heritage. It is an act of love.