The final stage of the All-Russian festival-competition “Many Faces of Russia” takes place in the Tver region
On October 22, the final stage of the IV All-Russian festival-competition of orchestras and ensembles of national instruments of the peoples of Russia “Many Faces of Russia” started in the Tver region. It will run until October 25th. informs Regional government.
The festival is held within the framework of the decade of folk music “Folk Instruments of Russia Sound”, dedicated to the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia. Starting in 2020 with a three-year cycle of events, the IV All-Russian festival-competition became a record in terms of the number of participants – more than 220 teams presented a variety of instrumental performance traditions during the qualifying events in Astrakhan, Irkutsk, Yoshkar-Ola and Petrozavodsk.
As part of the final meeting on October 23 at 15:00 in Tver in cinema-concert hall “Panorama” a gala concert of the winners of the festival-competition is held. The meeting will feature performances by the best amateur orchestras and ensembles of national instruments from the Republics of Adygea, Buryatia, Karelia, Crimea, North Ossetia-Alania, Belgorod, Pskov, Kemerovo, Tver economy, Moscow.
On October 24, the festival participants will visit Bezhetsk, the homeland of Vasily Vasilyevich Andreev, the creator of the first Great Russian Orchestra of Folk Instruments, which glorified Russian folk music all over the world. There will be an excursion to the Bezhetsky Memorial Literary and Local Lore Museum on the exposition dedicated to V.V. Andreev.
On the same day, at 18:30, concerts of the laureates of the festival-competition are held at the Vyshnevolotsk Regional Drama Theater, in the Bezhetsky District, the House of Folk Art, and at 18:00 in the city of Konakovo at the Sovremennik Palace of Culture.
October 25 at 11:00 in the Tver Regional House of Folk Art, a round table for local groups is held, where the prospects for the development of folk instrumental performance are discussed.
The All-Russian festival-competitions and ensembles of national instruments of the peoples of Russia “Many Faces of Russia” is an international show aimed at studying and preserving traditional performances on national instruments.
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