TEHRAN -- Iranian vocalist Alireza Qorbani will perform pieces from Iranian traditional music in some European countries.

His first performance will be held tonight at the Theater and Auditorium of Poitiers in France while kamancha virtuoso Saman Samimi, tar player Milad Mohammadi and percussionist Hussein Zahawy are accompanying him.

The next concert will be performed at the Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the Portuguese capital Lisbon on May 15.

The group will then leave Lisbon for Dortmund in Germany to play some Persian love songs at the Klangvokal Music Festival on May 18.

The Lenzburgiade International Festival of Classical and Folk Music at the Lenzburg Castle in Switzerland on June 14 is next.  

But before that concert, Qorbani is scheduled to take his band to the Moroccan capital of Rabat to give a performance at the 15th Mawazine Festival – Rhythms of the World on May 21.

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