INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- The winners of the Barbad Awards were honored at the closing event of the 38th Fajr Music Festival on Thursday at Tehrans Vahdat
Hall.The awards exist to leading musical productions of the year in various categories.Neither the Dastgahi Music without Vocals
classification nor the Dastgahi Music with Vocals area had winners.The album Orad ( Spells ) composed by Mohammad-Ali Najafpur and the
album Except Love, I Have No Art by vocalist Mohsen Hosseini were only awarded respectable discusses
Arvand by Amir-Hossein Samiei won the Barbad Award in the Modern Iranian Orchestral Music without Vocals category.In the Pop Music
category, singer Vahab Ebrahimi was granted for his album Must Be a Star and singer Gholamreza Sanatgar and author Aref Alizadeh were
awarded honorable mentions for their album Dear Tehran
The album Luka made up by Lian Band leader Mohsen Sharifian was awarded in the Regional Music section and artist Ehsan Jokar won an
honorable mention for his album Hara
Three awards were given up the Music Books area
Radifs of Iranian Music and Beats of Yusef Forutan by Hutan Sharafbayani won the award for instructional books.Amir Anjiri Estarakis
collection Music Theory won the award in the theory books area, while in the research publications classification, the award went to Bab
al-Hava , which is a study of folk music on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf
The book has actually been authored by Mohsen Sharifian.No awards were offered by the jury in the National Iranian Music competitors
The bands Hur led by Hossein Ruzbehani and Cooban Shams led by Mehdi Habibvand won respectable discusses
The audience award for anthem groups was provided to Shamim-e Yas led by Fatemeh Qazavi
A jury consisting of Behzad Abdi, Majid Akhshabi, Hadi Azarm, Homayun Rahimian, Hushang Javid, Reza Mahdavi, Anton Tenetov and Olga Khomova
About 90 efficiencies were held at seven halls, consisting of Vahdat and Rudaki in Tehran throughout the festival.Bands from Portugal,
Russia, Hungary, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Serbia were likewise invited to carry out
A dozen pop bands, 5 orchestras, 28 folk music groups, 14 traditional music ensembles and 11 anthem bands offered performances at the
event.Photo: Musicians from the Khorasan region hold awards throughout the closing ceremony of the 38th Fajr Music Festival at Tehrans
Vahdat Hall on February 23, 2023
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