Plastered by Music: Speghani holds together in song

By Vahan Ishkhanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter

Buzz, buzzing bug, what are you doing? I'm spinning yarn, sings Speghani choir.

If you haven't yet reached the fifth floor of the Yerevan Design Institute, where the choir is rehearsing, then it will seem to you there is a huge nest of bugs upstairs.

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Sailing on Sound: Armenian Navy Band opens home base in Yerevan

By Gayane Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow arts reporter

On March 13 the Armenian Navy Band and its founder Arto Tuncboyaciyan opened the doors of their long-expected Avant Garde Folk Song Club and announced the release of the Armenian Navy Band's ??? HOW MANY compact disc, The Voice of Our Life.

This club will become such a place where even the bravest ideas will be realized, where the borders separating artists from the art will be erased and the new things or old things presented in new form will be created, says Tuncboyaciyan.

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Nuri-Nuris: Fate and the art of doll making

By Marianna Grigoryan
ArmeniaNow reporter

Every Saturday morning Ashot Khalatyan takes a bag full of good luck to sell at Yerevan 's outdoor bazaar, vernisage.

Inside the bag are the black bearded faces and traditionally-decorated headwear of dolls created thread by thread to hold together a tradition that reaches to pagan times in Armenia.

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Fire and Rain and a Rain of Fire

Georgian President Mikael Saakhasvili braved rain for a visit to the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan last Saturday. The next day, his motorcade was fired upon as he tried to enter Ajaria, a contentiously contested autonomous republic on Georgia's Black Sea coast.

Plastered by Music: Speghani holds together in song

Plastered by Music: Speghani holds together in song