Chakavak Ensemble was founded by Reza Manbachi in 1998 in Iran and was re-established in Toronto in 2005. Chakavak is an ensemble of musicians, founded on the love of Persian music and a duty to promote and perform this tradition at a professional level for Canadian audiences. The eight artists involved combine their experience to perform a variety of styles of Persian music, with a repertoire that includes folk, classical music, and original compositions. With an instrumental palette that features tar, santur, kamenche, vocals and percussion, the Chakavak Ensemble captures the evocative power of the ancient traditions of Iran.
Association of Iranian Authors & Artists in Toronto. vAzhé was established in 1995 by a group of Iranian writers, poets, dramatists and artists, who had set their minds against any form of oppression and were eagerly looking for new forms of expression
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