
The ensemble of Bagshy girls continues the traditions of the national school of musicians
Turkmen folk music knows many names of outstanding female bagsi, who are not inferior to male representatives in their performing talent and virtuoso playing of the dutar. It is enough to remind the first performers of destans - female bagshy Akjagul Myradova and Nabat Nurmuhammedova. Or turn to even more ancient sources, telling the legend of Heley-bagshy, who surpassed Kor-Kojali himself in a creative competition. This was reported by "Turkmenistan: Golden age" e-newspaper.
The ensemble of girls is led by People's Artist of Turkmenistan, continuer of the style direction Nabat Nurmuhammedova, senior teacher of the department of bagshy art Shemshat Hojayeva.
«Our ensemble consists of 20 girls, students of the conservatory», says Shemshat Hojayeva. “The special uniqueness of the team is that representatives from all velayat of the country participate in it. And, as you know, each region of Turkmenistan is famous for its style of performance. The girls actively interact, learn to accompany in the manner of various styles of the dutarchy school, adopting from each other such performing styles as ahal-yoly, salyr-saryk, damana-yoly, yomut-goklen and others”.
Members of the ensemble Tazegul Atajanova, Dunya Gutlyyeva, Saparova Jemal are laureates of the song and music competitions «Ýaňlan, Diýarym»! and «Çalsana, bagşy»! Also, in the team there are successors of musical dynasties and bagsy dynasties.
For the first public performance, which recently took place in the new city of «Arkadag», and was shown on the new «Arkadag» TV channel, the team prepared 23 works. Most of them are based on poems by the great poet «Magtymguly Pragy».