System of a Down’s Yerevan concert pushed back at least until summer 2021May 25, 2020 - 14:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - System of a Down’s summer concert in Yerevan has been postponed and could happen next year, frontman Serj Tankian has revealed. Tankian said not all the tour dates may return in 2021 but added that the one in Armenia will happen “sometime in summer”. “We are hoping to redo a lot of the shows – on the tour that we were gonna do this year – next year,” the musician said in a Facebook live. “So we are basically rescheduling a good number of the shows, maybe not all of them, but as much as we can. “When will [the concert in] Armenia be there, probably, I would say, sometime in summer, if everything goes well.” Tankian had said in October 2019 that SOAD will give a concert in Yerevan in the summer of 2020, but all major public gatherings throughout the world have been canceled or postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. |