John Berberian

WATERTOWN — A concert on Saturday, September 14, at the Mosesian Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m., will take the audience on a tour of Armenian folk music from[...]

HOLLYWOOD — More than 250 concertgoers gathered at the Barnsdall Theater in Hollywood to enjoy the oud artistry of the legendary John Berberian and innovative next generation Antranig Kzirian on[...]

By Harout Arakelian Special to the Mirror-Spectator “World music is ‘in’ today, and I was at the bottom end of this thing, I was doing this music in the ‘50s![...]

WATERTOWN, Mass. — The Armenian rock group Lav Eli on May 1 concluded an East Coast tour of five cities, including Watertown (for the metropolitan Boston area), for which the[...]

BOSTON — By now, most readers of the Mirror-Spectator, particularly those who live in the Boston area have heard that oudist and singer Harry Minassian passed away this June. Amongst[...]

“In those days, we lived from Armenian event to Armenian event,” my friend reminisced. A group of us had gathered in a small restaurant in Chicago. It was a reunion[...]

When I was living in Chicago I went to a restaurant one evening where a local Armenian band was playing. It was a typical “kef” lineup: oud, guitar, dumbeg, and[...]