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The Festival Flugery L’vova -2010
For the first time Truskavets city will join the Festival . This year all Flugery actions will be held in Truskavets Treatment & Rehabilitation Resort Complex "Rixos-Prykarpattya” as well.
1 May, Saturday – Especial Projects Day:
The Festival will be launched with the concert by Victor Tsaran, the legend of the 90th, sightless bard who will present his new album "Vanilla Fields" with the participation of the most lyrical Ukrainian ethno-band Ocheretyanyj Kit. .
Besides, that day will present: the International jazz project The Pol.E.Trio + Polish band Port Przemysl , who will sing sea shanties (shipboard working songs) + unpredictable duo of the bassist & vocalist in the quartet Zbigniew Wrombel - Janusz Szrom Projekt .
That day will come to its end to the accompaniment of the writer & provocateur Yuriy Izdryk & his project "Amsterdam" with the participation of the Ukrainian-Dutch band Alex Trio: Maksymiv-Voytyuk-Abramov & the psychotropic-poetic project "DrumTYatr: Izdryk-Semenchuk-if.ro».
2 May, Sunday, Concert-happening “Get Up with “Mertvyj Piven!”
+ ethno-music under supervision of the newly created "EthnoClub of Acquisitions":
Sunday morning at 10 am. - the 5th anniversary of the concert-happening “Get Up with “Mertvyj Piven!” within the Festival Flugery L’vova. The musicians will awake as always loudly, cheerfully and massively. Admission - 50 UAH.
And in the evening the lovers of ethnic music will be entertained by the gutsul (ethno-cultural group of Ukrainian highlanders) Chapel Bay, folk-band Burdon, the songs of "desert nations" will be represented by the Egypt bedouins «Mazaher -Zar», the meditative music will be performed by the Tatosh Banda and the Polish world music stars the Čači Vorba will transform the Festival’s courtyard into a hilarious Balkan wedding.
3 May, Monday - «JazzClub.Lviv» will present the zests of young jazz:
The concert will be opened by the debutants of the previous Festival, the band Free Breath, then the New Trio (Poland) will demonstrate their new jazz-dreams, Arabic jazz will be performed by the musicians of the Cairo Jazz Club «Arabesky» and the ShockolaD (quite impossible to imagine any Flugery without that group) will finish that day.
4 May, Tuesday - the concert on the occasion of the Dzyga Jazz Quartet 10th anniversary (L’viv Philharmonic):
The final "Flugery L’vova - 2010" project will be the concert devoted to the 10 th anniversary of Lviv's jazz patriarchs – the band Dzyga Jazz Quartet (Volodymyr Kit, Arkady Orekhov, Valentyn Uchanin, Andreiy Nadolskyj)
Organizers: Art Association "Dzyga", NGO "Virmenska 35”, Polish Institute in Kyiv, Consulate General of Poland in Lviv, Foundation «Transkultura », Cairo Jazz Club, L’viv City Council, L’viv Regional State Administration
08 April 2010
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October 1
at the Center for Culture and history, “Park Kievska Rus” (p. Kopach, Obukhov, District,
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