Nowruz celebration with Persian colorful music

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Dances from Birjand, Khorasan province, east of Iran

Baluchi Haft-Sin table (south east of Iran)

Arak Haft-Sin table (center province)

Arak new Haft-Sin table (center province)

We have the most spring songs in Shiraz city which is located Fars province. This city is provenance of two great universal poets, Hafez and Saadi, so beautiful with many flowers. The musicians who live in this zone are often interested in spring and its popular ceremony, Nowruz celebration.

Eram garden in Shiraz, Fars province, south of Iran

The folkloric popular players and singers perform energetic songs for people to make them happy. Nowruz has special songs called Nowruz-khani that is played one week before the first day of Nowruz. When the old year is finished, popular musicians perform many songs of spring; instrumental and vocal. The songs are very different and so colorful because of the Persian tribes have their own cultures. For example we have many genres of folk music such as Azeri, Kurdish, Lori, Bakhtiyari, Shahsavan, Gilaki, Mazani, Turkmen, Kormanji, Qashqaei, Arabic, Khorasani, Baluchi, Bandari and Persian central culture.

Bakhtiyari dance (Dastmal Bazi)

Boyer Ahmad dance (Dastmal Bazi)

Boyer Ahmad women clothes

Mazandaran Haft-Sin table (north of Iran)

Mazandaran dancers (north of Iran)

Kurdish Haft-Sin table (west of Iran)

Kurdish tent and musicians (west of Iran)

Sorna is a common instrument among Persian tribes which is accompanied by Dohol (double-faced cylindrical drum). Moreover many wood wind instruments such as Karna, Balaban, Dozaleh, Qoshmeh, Ney Anban and Ney Jofti are used in this celebration.

Sorna player from Jiroft, Kerman province