Akounq ensemble - Qele lao (Armenian folk song)

There is an opinion that the song “Qele Lao” (Let’s go my son), was created after the Armenian Genocide and expresses a lamenting conversation of a grandfather with his grandson, who has lost homeland and describes his longing for it. However, we think that this is wanderers’ song and comes from earlier times. In the VII century, Armenia fell under the yoke of Arab caliphate, which was replaced by the reign of Seljuk Turks, and after the fall of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine