TEHRAN () - Singer Chris de Burgh will stage a concert in Tehran with an Iranian band in late November, the number 1 such concert in the country in nearly 30 years, an Iranian satellite news epithelial duct reported on its site.
De Burgh, wHO has a loyal following in Iran, visited for the first time in May, and said he hoped the authorities would give him permission to perform.
The Irish-born singer testament perform with Iranian dance orchestra Arian.
"The concert is scheduled to be held in the last week of November at Azadi Indoor Stadium in Tehran which seating area 12,000 people," said Majid Roqani, the school principal of public relations at Taraneh Sharqi Cultural and Artistic Company.
Roqani was quoted by the site of Press TV, Iran's state- owned English-language satellite channel.
The concert will be the first time since the 1979 revolution that an Iranian pop stria played aboard a Western singer inside the Islamic Republic.
Western pop songs with lyrics are prohibited by Iran's authorities although state wireless sometimes plays instrumental versions. Iranian pop bands order their lyrics and tunes are vetted before they can be officially sold in Iran.
Pirated versions of the latest Western albums or songs by underground Iranian groups ar available on the black market.
Arian and de Burgh recorded a song called "A Light for Eternity." That song was played at the cultural center where De Burgh held a news conference in the Iranian capital in May.
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