TEHRAN – Theaters in Tehran and several other Iranian cities will be brightened up over the coming days by concerts from many musicians, including Alireza Qorbani, Salar Aqili, Mohsen Yeganeh and Lily Afshar.

July performances include a concert by composer Mahyar Alizadeh and vocalist Alireza Qorbani  who will perform selections from their album “Fairylike Girl” at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

Also included are several other performances to take place in Vahdat Hall including concerts by the ensembles Nariman, exclusive for women, and the Sur with vocalist Hesameddin Seraj.

Gil and Amard, a major ensemble playing Gilaki folk music, and Lian, an Iranian band from the southern city of Bushehr, will also give performances at Vahdat Hall.

Vocalist Salar Aqili is scheduled to perform in Kerman on July 14.

Several cities in northern Iran will also be hosting pop music concerts in July.

Pop singers Omid Hajili, Majid Kharratha, Mehdi Moqaddam and Ruzbeh Nematollahi will give concerts in the city of Nur, while Mohsen Yeganeh will perform in Chalus and Omid Hajili in Ramsar.

The performances continue in August with a performance by the U.S-based Iranian guitarist Lily Afshar’s in the Niavaran Cultural Center.

The Niavaran Cultural Center will also host several other performances including a concert by the Rasch Ensemble during which the group will perform pieces of Latin music and a quartet by Shahrdad Rohani, the new conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.

Several additional concerts have also been scheduled in other cities such as Kermanshah, Mahabad, Khorramabad and Rasht.

Photo: Lian, an Iranian band from the southern city of Bushehr, performs in an undated photo.

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