Armenia Will Organize Rock Against Genocide Festival

By a May 27 ruling the Government of Armenia decided to offer a 10 million AMD subvention to the Municipality of Shirak marz (province). The money will be used for the construction of Gyumri's #6 Musical School after Azat Shirinyan.

The program Rock Aid Armenia/Armenia Grateful 2 Rock envisages reconstructing the above-mentioned music school. The 18,327,000 m AMD raised by a recent benefit concert by the famous British group Deep Purple (Ian Gilan) will be transferred to a bank account specially opened by the Fund for Armenian Relief and will be used for the purpose.

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan also said that the Government intends organizing a festival called Rock Against Genocide.
Several musicians across the world have already agreed participating in it.