Bedros Alahaidoyan coll. 2 | Sivas/Sepasdia

This page presents songs and dance music collected and recorded by musicologist Bedros Alahaidoyan. Beginning in the 1980s, Mr. Alahaidoyan traveled to cities and towns populated by Armenians throughout the Diaspora, in search for Genocide survivors from whom he collected rare songs and anecdotes of their native cities and villages.

Editing of this page, as well as music engraving and digitization, provided by Dzovig Markarian, DMA. Translation: Simon Beugekian.

Sivas: A scene from the Armenian neighborhood (Source: Harvard University, Houghton Library)

Yervan Chaderdjian met Bedros Alahaydoyan in the Armenian nursing home of Fresno, on October 30, 1986. Mr. Chadhrdjian is a native of Sebastia.