Armenian Navy Band Wins Award

Photo courtesy of Arto's official Web site (see below)

The Armenian Navy Band, founded by percussionist/vocalist Arto Tunçboyaciyan, won the Audience Award at last year's BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music Concert.

You can see Arto's very singular performance when he accepted the award on behalf of the Band on You Tube, where you may also view related video clips of other renditions by the Band, including the very memorable Ararat.

For more information about the award, visit the BBC Radio 3 site, and if you want to gen up on Arto and his Band, you can click here.

The Band have released 3 CDs to date, which are listed on Amazon, and Arto himself has a Web site which has details of all of his recordings and much more besides. You may also wish to have a peek at the Band's Official site.

Long live the Armenian Navy - and its band! :-)