TEHRAN -- The Iranian Kurdish ensemble Kamkars announced their programs for the Iranian New Year which will end on March 21, 2011.

They will participate at the Førde Folk Music Festival which will be held from July 8 to 11 in Norway, artistic director of the ensemble Hushang Kamkar mentioned in a press release.
They will perform Persian and Kurdish pieces during the festival and will hold educational workshops to introduce Persian musical instruments and Kurdish music on July 12.
The same concert will be held on July 23 in London and we will also have performances the WOMAD festival, which will be held from April 23 to 25 in Abu Dhabi, he said.
The ensemble will have two performances at Tehran’s Milad Tower in early August, he mentioned.
The selections will be divided into Persian and Kurdish sections. Four tasnif on poems by Rumi and Hafez, and solo and trio pieces will be performed in the Persian section, he said.
The Kurdish section will include compositions by the ensemble’s members as well as some folk music, he mentioned.
He went on to say that the ensemble also plans to hold concerts with the renowned Kurdish vocalist Adnan Karim in Baghdad during which other virtuosos from the Baghdad Symphony Orchestra will accompany Kamkars.
Photo: The Kamkars Ensemble performs a concert at Tehran’s National Grand Hall on August 25, 2007. (Mehr/Ra’uf Mohseni)