New Voices in Armenian Music
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 08
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0708_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0004
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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: Armenian Public Radio; TmbaTa; Russell Christopher Rodriguez Acoustic trio Armenian Public Radio melds Armenian folk songs from a broad mix of genres with modern sensibilities to bring a new perspective to the music of their homeland. Based in Los Angeles, the group reinterprets the music of their childhood in an innovative style which holds multigenerational appeal, and has made it their mission to revive folk songs in their community and introduce them to wider audiences.They are joined by members of TmbaTa, a youth folk rock band born from the music program of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia, in 2013. Led by Arik Grigoryan of The Bambir, they perform original compositions based on traditional Armenian folk songs combined with rock and experimental music. The group is comprised of thirty teens who learn all stages of music creation including composition, performance, recording, mixing, and mastering. Tumo Center for Creative Technologies is an innovative after-school program where thousands of students aged twelve to eighteen are in charge of their own learning. Tumo is a partner in the Smithsonian's My Armenia project.