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[06.11.2009]

BALKANFEST-2009

BALKANFEST – taking placeat Kyiv’s Palats Sportu on December 4-5, 2009 – is an international two-day festival organized by a team of Balkan music enthusiasts for thousands of Balkan music fans. Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra (Serbia), Gogol Bordello (U.S.A.), Haydamaky (Ukraine),Fanfare Ciocărlia (Romania), Kočani Orkestar (Macedonia) andKAL (Serbia) are headlining the festival – carnivals, show booths, rock-n-roll, jazz, gypsy dances, Turkish marches, Sarajevo’s punk-culture on trumpets, clarinets, fiddles, and kettledrums, influenced by melodies from the Middle East and even Jamaica.

Tickets are inexpensive and festival guests can receive a discount at Nike retail stores. The melodious and lively music from the Balkan peninsula – the legacy of ancient cultures and civilizations – provides the real vital energy that every modern, urban person needs. Fans of the world musicians performing at the festival are impatiently waiting to experience the show. And BALKANFEST guarantees that the bands will play. The festival will be a great event for Ukraine, a country that aspires to become European, and it will be one of the few opportunities to hear the live, pure, exceptionally beautiful music that all of Europe’s listening to.

BALKANFEST is not a spin off from other world festivals with similar names and ideas – it has been fully created and realized in Ukraine. It is not political – it is a celebration of life, dancing and personal freedom – the most diverse in its world-views, customs and experience. On December 4-5, the Palats Sportu will be converted into a brilliant kaleidoscope. The Balkans are coming to Kyiv! And you don’t want to miss it.