Focus on the diversity of ethnic colors in the Regional Music Festival of Iran / Broadcast performances

According to Fars News Agency’s music correspondent, the press conference of the 14th National Festival of Regional Music of Iran today, Wednesday, October 12, with the presence of “Ali Niknam Anzabi”, CEO of the Iranian Music Association, “Mohammad Reza Alizadeh”, Director General of Islamic Culture and Guidance of Kerman Province and “Mohammad Ali Merati” Secretary The festival was held at the Music Office of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Director General of Kerman Province, said about how to hold the 14th regional music festival: “Every year, the regional music festival reveals its role and influence for Iranian regional music, and this has increased the credibility of this event compared to previous years.” Find. This makes us proud. This event, with all its ups and downs, has reached this level of perfection and status. However, after the Corona incident, the festival was threatened, but with the efforts of executives and artists and officials, the festival lights did not go out. This year and in the fourteenth period, despite the coronary heart disease, with the efforts of all festival staff and loved ones in the artistic deputy of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the Music Office, both in the previous period and in the current period, we try to host 110 artists and executives in Kerman.

Changing the location of the performances to the garden of the Vaziri Museum of Kerman

He added: “Holding the festival for more than a decade has caused a remarkable consensus among musicians in Kerman province and has caused the music field of the regions to be more welcomed by the audience.” In the field of performance, we tried to take steps in this period as well, so that we can be a good host for artists and audiences. According to the plan we had in the last five periods, we designed the conditions for coordination, in which meetings were held virtually and physically in Tehran and Kerman. In this situation, due to the presence of Mr. Hosseini, the former artistic deputy of the Ministry of Guidance, a memorandum of understanding was signed with the Kerman governor’s office to hold the festival as well as possible. This year, the Iranian Regional Music Festival will be held in the garden of the Vaziri Museum in Kerman, and fortunately it will be a good place to hold this event.

Broadcast performances from radio and television

Alizadeh, while explaining about the in-person and virtual holding of the festival, said: “We tried to have coordination in the executive field that in this framework, in addition to holding the festival in virtual platforms, we have programs to broadcast these works on radio and television.” We also had interactions with friends in the cultural heritage of Kerman, based on which it can be said that there are good conditions for the executive field, while the municipality of Kerman and other provincial complexes have also had good cooperation with us. We plan to provide the conditions for holding the festival in three cities of Kerman province, including Babak, Sirjan and Rafsanjan, which will also happen if the Corona headquarters agrees. We have also prepared other programs to have the conditions for holding funerals for the dead of music in different parts of the country, holding press conferences and holding photo exhibitions of the past periods of the festival. The issue of holding research sessions and pathology sessions for regional music audiences is one of our serious discussions, and I hope that some plans will be made in this regard.

“Unity in the multiplicity of ethnic music” is the slogan of this year’s festival

After Alizadeh’s speech, Mohammad Ali Merati, the secretary of the 14th festival, while expressing his satisfaction with the holding of this period of Iranian music, said: “Our vast and diverse country in the form of” Cultural Iran “is a producer of colorful music that has a great relationship with classical music and other musical . This year, for the first time, the theme of “Unity in the multiplicity of Iranian ethnic music” has been chosen as the slogan of the festival to implement this diversity and colorfulness in cultural Iran. This year, with the help of the Iranian Music Association, we were able to envisage a system that would also introduce selected regional music artists in cyberspace. Because these great people are the identity card and identity of cultural Iran. Therefore, our system is monitoring as much as possible and so far about 300 artists have been registered in this system. Unfortunately, due to the Corona affair, we are facing limitations for the audience, a situation that has continued this year, and we will record the participant’s works and upload them on the platforms after 24 hours, based on the plans made in this regard.

Trying for a painted look based on ethnicity

The secretary of the festival said about the number of groups and individuals of artists who are going to perform in this period: “This year, I selected several researchers from all over Iran as the festival selection committee and based on the intensive meetings we had in Tehran, we were able to select works.” . If musicians are not invited to the festival this year, there is no criterion for the low quality of their work. What is important for us is to try to paint a colorful view based on ethnicity and the keyword of cultural Iran, which I hope can be noticed by the audience. In this regard, 70 people have been invited to the festival to present their works to the audience in the fourteenth event, and the final names will be announced on Saturday. The festival performances are based on three-person performances because the health of the artists was really important to us. Therefore, a maximum capacity of three people is considered for each performance, which includes both solo and group playing, and four performances will take the stage each day.

Regarding the special look at the regional music veterans, Merati explained: “At the closing ceremony, appreciation of veteran artists with different shapes and images is another of our programs, which certainly feels like a vacancy for many artists, but can, for its part, create conditions for appreciation.” Provide pioneering artists in the field. Regarding the function of the festival in supporting regional music artists, it should be said that the festival has no supportive discussion and their efforts are to express the high art of regional music, which is not within the scope of the festival’s duties.

Ali Niknam Anzabi, CEO of the Iranian Music Association, as the last speaker of the press conference, while appreciating the support of the media in covering the news media related to the regional music festival, said: “My colleagues provided sufficient explanations on how to hold the festival. We have introduced many greats in the field of regional music to the art credit fund. On the other hand, by launching the Bamak system, we will do our best to be with them in the good and bad days of regional music artists.

At the end of the ceremony, the poster of the 14th Regional Music Festival of Iran was unveiled.

The 14th Regional Music Festival of Iran will be held by the Music Association of Iran in cooperation with the Music Office of the Ministry of Guidance, the General Directorate of Islamic Culture and Guidance and the Music Association of Kerman Province from October 20 to November 2 in Kerman.

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