INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-The 40th International Fajr Music Festival will kick off in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon, with six international musicians and bands
performing during the week-long event.Musicians and bands from Turkey, Spain, India, the Netherlands, Tunisia, and Armenia are set to attend
will perform on February 12 and the performance of Spanish flamenco guitarists Daniel Casares and Antonio Maldonado is planned for the same
day.Pavan Shrikant Naik, Ram Deshpande, Vivek Samuel, and Amano Manish are musical artists from India who will perform on February 13 and
Stadshouders from the Netherlands and Bence Huszar from Hungary are members of the Afro Anatolian Tales.The Iranian musicians in the Nushe
Band include Niusha Barimani, Rokhsareh Rostami, Niloofar Ebrahimi, Donya Fathi, Azin Malekzadeh, and Setareh Hatef.Another performance is
also slated for February 15 when Vahdat Hall will host Levon Tevanyan from Armenia.The last international performance will be delivered by
Farah Fersi from Tunisia on February 16, when she will play kanun, a Middle Eastern string instrument played in much of Iran, Arab East, and
Arab Maghreb region of North Africa.The 40th International Fajr Music Festival is organized by the Deputy of Artistic Affairs of the
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, in collaboration with the Music Office of the Culture Ministry, the Iran Music Association, and
the international participants, this year, 100 Iranian bands comprising over 1,400 musicians will perform at the festival.The festival will
be held in two competitive and non-competitive sections from February 11 to 17 in Tehran.Photo: Farah Fersi from Tunisia plays kanun in an
