Organized by Avaye Honar Cultural Institute of Qashqai Tribe, the festival will represent traditional and folklore music from all over the country, IRNA wrote.

Preservation of originality and expansion of rich Iranian culture are the main goals behind holding the festival.

Holding workshops, commemoration of top narrators, selecting top research papers and publishing the book of the festival are among other programs of the event. 

Music groups from various Iranian provinces including Lorestan, Shiraz, Gilan, Kurdestan, Mazandaran, Khuzestan and Kerman will stage their regional music.

Damoon Sheshblooki and Arash Safari are the scientific and executive directors of the festival respectively.

Last month, a ceremony on introducing and unveiling Iranian folklore orchestra from different areas of Iran led by Peyman Bozorgnia was held in Vahdat Hall in Tehran in which 10 singers, seven researchers of folklore music, and 45 prominent international musicians participated.

 

Source: Iran Daily