YEREVAN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The final concert of the "Golden Guitar-2006" (voske kitar-2006) republican festival of author song will take place on June 7 and 8 in the hall of the Hakob Paronian State Comedy Theater. 26 authors-performers from marzes and Yerevan passed the competition stages participated in the concert. As author-performer Tatev Aghamirian, the Cultural Director of the festival informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, the number of authors presented a claim for participation in the festival was 50, but their number reduced to 26 after the 3 competition stages. Famous authors-performers Ruben Hakhverdian, Marieta Badalian, Eduard Zorikian, Yeghishe Petrosian and Artavazd Bayatian, guitar player Martin Aharonian, etc. will perform at the final concerts. According to Tatev Aghamirian, the author song's festival gives authors-performers of this genre the first debute possibility. He mentioned that such a festival was organized for the last time in Armenia in 1999. And the "Yeghegnadzor" festival of author song was traditionally organized before that.

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