IAN ANDERSON PLAYS THE ORCHESTRAL JETHRO TULL

September 24 Yerevan, Opera House, 19:45
With the Armenian Chamber Players

Line-up

Ian Anderson

John O'Hara - keyboards, conductor
David Goodier - bass
Florian Opahle - guitars
Scott Hammond - drums

Guest Act for Yerevan - Zara from Dogma

Zara, the lead vocalist of the Armenian band Dogma, will join Ian as a special guest for the Yerevan date. In Ian's words, Dogma is...."The best musical metal band this side of Mars. Amazing bass player. Brilliant vocals. Searing guitar. Thundering neutron drums. This band feature instruments which are weapons of mass destruction.... Oh, to be so young."

View at Jethro Tull Official website here.

Ticket info coming soon!

Sport & Concert Complex / MAY 25, 2010

Another exceptional and unbelievable music event within the World Music Festival organized by Vibrographus for the year of 2010 in Yerevan. An event that had nothing of the kind in the whole region!

Deep Purple" performed with its full complement;
Don Airey - Keyboards
Ian Gillan - Vocals
Roger Glover - Bass
Steve Morse - Guitar
Ian Paice - Drums

Within the World Music Festival organized by Vibrographus for the year of 2010 in Yerevan, the great English jazz fusion guitarist and composer, one of the best guitarists of all times, John McLaughlin and his band "The 4th Dimension" gave a concert on April 28, 2010, at The Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

Guest Act for the concert - Arto Tuncboyaciyan.

John McLaughlin, also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He played with Tony Williams’s group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew. His 1970s electric band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused eclectic jazz and rock with eastern and Indian influences. His guitar playing includes a range of styles and genres, including jazz, Indian classical music, fusion, and Western Classical music, and has influenced many other guitarists. He has also incorporated Flamenco music in some of his acoustic recordings. The Indian Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has called John McLaughlin “one of the greatest and most important musicians of our times”.

The 4th Dimension Band (John McLaughlin, Etienne Mbappé, Gary Husband, Mark Mondésir) was in studio at the end of November to record their new album "To the one", featuring the new bass player Etienne Mbappé. The album will be released worldwide on April 20, 2010 for their European Tour. A small fragment from their album is available here..


Arto Tuncboyaciyan, another great musician, who has already had the pleasure of playing with McLaughlin, joined the concert as a guest act with his original music and character. “Arto is an amazing musician, a person with big and kind spirit” - John McLaughlin stated during his exclusive interview in Monte Carlo By the initiative of Vibrographus Company and support of Armenia TV before his concert in Yerevan.


Here is John McLaughlin's introduction of his band "The 4th Dimension".

The «4th Dimension» is a group that is the culmination of many years of collaboration with different musicians from different cultures and musical traditions both Eastern and Western. The music of this group successfully integrates these and other cultural influences, while keeping the spontaneous traditions found in Jazz music.

Gary Husband is the true instrumentalist. With the 4th Dimension he plays keyboards, but can switch over to drums with ease. He has played with many musicians that include: - Allan Holdsworth, Jack Bruce, Jeff Beck, Mike Stern, Christian McBride, Billy Cobham, Mike and Ian Carr's bands, Yaron Herman, Bob Berg, Gary Moore, Level 42 and Robin Trower. He leads his own bands that have included such musicians as Randy Brecker, Jerry Goodman, Matthew Garrison, Jim Beard, and has played with me in recordings and performances for the past 4 years. Read more...

John McLaughlin official website here.

When back in 2008 Vibrographus announced about the intentions to organize the concert of the 40-year-old legendary Jethro Tull in Yerevan for most Armenian rock fans, that was too good to be true…. Nontheless, a year later Yerevan was included in the Jethro Tull European Tour 2009. The unbelievable sold-out concert took place on May 22, in Sport & Concert Complex, with Jethro Tull performing in front of the amazed audience, yet it seeming a dream for all of Jethro Tull fans.

To continue the dream of the Armenian fans, in August 2009 Vibrographus announced about the upcoming concert of another legendary rock band in Yerevan – Uriah Heep! The Uriah Heep sold-out concert within the “Celebration – 40th Anniversary” Tour on October 16, full of positive, nostalgia and drive, proved once more that the Armenian rock music scene is alive and perfectly well. Moreover, on March 19, 2010, in cooperation with "PLSE Locomotive Promotion" (Georgia), Vibrographus presented Uria Heep concert in Tbilisi.

Let’s not forget to mention that the professional approach of Vibrographus in organising these historic concerts, surely paved the way for great things for the year of 2010… Watch this space and rock on.