Nur Qanon Ensemble
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Armenia / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 June 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2018, Item SFF2018_0630_Armenia_Hyurasenyak_0005
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Niery Grace Bardakjian; Qanon Ensemble; Eteri Hovhannisyan; Kristine Yengoyan; Meri Musinyan; Tsovinar Hovhannisyan; Qanon player Tsovinar Hovhannisyan and three of her students perform folk melodies. The instrument was traditionally played by men, but Anzhela Atabekyan, a qanon player during the Soviet period, famously "took the qanon away from men and never gave it back."