Dalahu Tanbur Players, Directed by Houshang Amirian, at the 1398 Fajr Music Festival

Watch the captivating performance of the Dalahu Tanbur Players, directed by Houshang Amirian, at the 1398 (2020) Fajr Music Festival. We hope you enjoy their live set at the 35th Fajr Music Festival.

Other performances from the Fajr Music Festival are in this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEt8LHwWfbHuezNE0DMOxa9fpCyF8boq

A few words on the Dalahu Tanbur Players' performance at the 35th Fajr Music Festival

The Dalahu Tanbur Players from Kermanshah took the stage with Teymour Mehrabi, Pouria Fattahi, Borzou Amirian and Jabbar Mohammadi. Directed by Houshang Amirian, they appeared in Kurdish trousers and giveh shoes and played as a group.

“Sarukhani”, “Sar-Tarz”, “Gharibi”, “Bariyeh” and “Gel va Dara” were among the pieces they performed. The set reached its climax with the playing and singing of “Malaka Zekr-e To Guyam”, a poem by Sanai of Ghazni. The group began its work in Kermanshah in 1369 (1990), founded by Houshang Amirian.

The tanbur belongs to the dotar family; more precisely, it is the old, ancient name of the dotar. Among the instruments of this family, the tanbur is the only plucked string instrument common in western Iran. Today it is found mainly in Kermanshah Province and the northern parts of Lorestan Province, and it is said to go by different names across these regions. The tanbur is the only instrument allowed into the niyaz gatherings and zikr circles of the Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq), a community in which it holds particular respect and sanctity.