Nowruz e Jamshid - Iranian Song

Also check out last year’s Nowruz song: Music & vocals by Farya Faraji, with more vocals by my mom, and lyrics by Ferdowsi. This is a song I’ve composed in celebration of our annual Iranian New Year of Nowruz, also celebrated throughout Iran, Afghanistan and Tadjikistan, as well as parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Nowruz is celebrated by a wide array of ethnolinguistic groups, some Iranic, like the Persians, Kurds, Baloch, etc, where the celebration originated, and it has spread to other groups such as Turkic groups, Georgians, etc. It originates in the beliefs of pre-Islamic Iranian civilisation, and marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the 21st of March on the Gregorian calendar. The visuals I filmed depict the “Sofre Haftsin,” a collection of objects that are associated culturally with Nowruz. The lyrics are from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, the Iranian national epic poem that is central to our mythology and culture. The