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World renowned flamenco guitar player Paco Peña will give concerts in Tehran and Shiraz-IRAN.

Sponsored by Navay-e Sarang Music Company, the concerts will be held on August 20 and 21 (30th and 31st of Amordad) in Shiraz and on August 22 (1st of Shahrivar) at the Sadabad Historical Cultural Complex.
After the concerts performed by the Flamenco guitar virtuoso Juan Cristóbal Martín in 2004 in Shiraz, the Peña performances will be the greatest happening in Flamenco in IRAN.
Peña will also hold master guitar playing classes in Tehran and Shiraz.

Born in the Andalucian city of Córdoba in 1942, Paco Peña began learning guitar from his brother at the age of six and made his first professional appearance at the age of 12. In the late 1960s he left Spain for London, where his flamenco recitals captured the public’s imagination.
In 1981 he founded the Centro Flamenco Paco Peña in Cordoba, and later become the Artistic Director of the Córdoba International Guitar Festival.
Paco Peña embodies both authenticity and innovation in flamenco. As guitarist, composer, dramatist, producer and artistic mentor he has eclipsed common perceptions of this archetypal Spanish art form.

Adapted from: Mehr News Agency

The Iranian female rower who gained the first Olympic berth for Iranian women, attracted billions of global audiences, international media and anti-Iranian lobbies while she carried IRAN's flag during the opening ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Homa Hosseini who was among the few female flag bearers of opening ceremony, marched ahead of 54 other Iranian sportspersons and now is in the FrontPage headlines of mainstream media.
Dressing light Grass Green attire and a White scarf, Homa Hosseini held the honorable, 3-colors flag of IRAN and marched in front of thousands of reporters, political figures and audiences who were waiting to observe a new innovation from Iranian people who are famous internationally because of their artistic and cultural approaches during the history.
Choosing a female flag bearer for Iranian team by the National Olympic Committee was a defeating and decisive answer to those who wanted to pretend that the women rights are being violated in IRAN, it also lead to a historical failure for Zionist and American lobbies in the field of their anti-Iranian black propaganda.
The US media reported:
"Iranian marchers were the messengers of Love, Peace, Friendship from a misunderstood country to 4 billion LIVE Watchers and thousands of audiences attending in the “Bird’s Nest”."