hartun - 5-2-2017 at 04:37 PM
great video about the New England Armenian musicians. they also discuss the Turkish music Armenians usually/often play. just a note, not all of these
people are from New England, i.e. John Berberian lives there now but he is from New York and lived in Jersey for much of his career. So when he talks
about his father in the beginning and his dry cleaning store etc. that was happening in New York City. Also the bands Berberian names are from
Philadelphia.
it really should have been called "East coast Armenian musicians, but I only visited Boston because I didn't have time" 
)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X08m4jch3U&t=5s
Just a note on the vintage photographs: the one of Armenians wearing fezzes, playing kanun and violin and with a hookah, was taken in Diyarbakir.
The next photo of several young men in suits with clarinet, saxophone, and drum set is the original Vosbikian Band from 1939 (Philadelphia)
The next image, the oil painting is of the Vosbikian Band circa 1950
I don't know who the next bands shown are - although he says Gomidas band when an image pops up, I don't think that is the Gomidas Band.
Mike - 5-2-2017 at 06:40 PM
i've watched two minutes and this is awesome!!!
i love this stuff. back to it.
paulO - 5-2-2017 at 07:13 PM
There's a few of them: check this one out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lHZlQGe60
Regards,
PaulO
jack - 5-3-2017 at 05:48 PM
Totally awesome. Great work.
Mike - 5-3-2017 at 08:00 PM
thanks PaulO! these videos are all excellent!
bulerias1981 - 5-3-2017 at 10:21 PM
This is great.. makes me wish I was Armenian. Ara Dinkjian once gave me my honorary Armenian name, "John Vergarian".
I look forward to watch the rest of the series.
dario - 5-15-2017 at 03:03 AM
Great videos. I wonder if anyone knows anything about the record Ara Dinkjian plays a couple of minutes into his episode of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lHZlQGe60&t=105s
It's a version of the ussak/huseyni laz bar very common among Armenians and Greeks (we call it To Diko Mou Paploma, or My Bedcover). But I love this
recording and I can't catch the name Ara says of the performer! Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks!
hartun - 5-16-2017 at 08:42 AM
he states that the singer's name is Yeghiazar Effendi.
I assume this is the same person as Hanende Agyazar Efendi whose real name was Yeghiazar Garabedian. He was a well known singer in Istanbul in that
era. He was also Udi Hrant's vocal teacher. He was born in Agn (Egin/Kemaliye) and he recorded a version of the famous Egin Havasi called "Murat
Kenarinda". (In my opinion it seems likely that Hrant learned the Turkish and Armenian versions of Egin Havasi which he titled as "Egin Havasi' and
"Agin" from him). Unfortunately this "Murat Kenarinda" along with one or two other songs are the only songs of Yeghiazar Efendi available digitally.
The song Ara is playing is not available anywhere to my knowledge.
However, I have heard the song played in Turkish before. Usually it's called "Hamsi Koydum Tavaya" (I put the anchovies in the pan). In Armenian of
course it's called Laz Bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbrFqIvbPNM