In Loving Memory of Folk Artist David Ayriyan

PROVIDENCE, RI—Surrounded by his loving family, David Ayriyan, age 85, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Born in Baku, David fled with his family when bloody pogroms by Azeri Turks against the Armenian community swept the region. David and his family found freedom in Rhode Island, where he would eventually become the state's most prominent folk artist and a treasured member of the local Armenian community. David was also a world-renowned master of the second most ancien