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Zhara fest is among TOP 3 open-air festivals

- By Laman Ismayilova

Featuring some of the best representa­tives of TRIO creative center, this concert will delight you as these superb musicians showcase their astounding virtuosity. Program Gadimova Jamila – M. Glinka "Reperation" Hasanov Said – Y.Litovko "Play" Rahimli Ayan – L.V.Beethowen "Marmot" Ramazanli Amina – I.Brams "Lullaby" Mahmudova Saadat – G.Abdullayev "Life Goes On" Zeynalova Khadija – R.Leiland "Secret Garden" Bayramli Elmar – L.V.Beethoven "Für Elise" Yavarifar Ayla – F.Chopin "Forgotten Waltz" Karimzada Zahra – V.Kesselman "Little Waltz" Mammadova Daniz – Italian national song "Santa Lucia" Adıgozalov­a Fatima – P.İ. Tchaikovsk­y "Dance of Little Swans" Khudu Zeyd – V.Volkov "Waltz" Aliyeva Nurel – S.Allerm "Musetta’s Waltz" Jafarli Tomris – W.Gillock "Sarabande" Nazarli Amira – T. Guliyev "Lyrical Waltz" Hasanov Mikayil – E.Grinko "Waltz" The event starts at 18:00. Venue: YARAT Centre For registrati­on, please contact: 0502469292

Registrati­on days: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 6.30 p.m

YARAT is a not-for-profit organizati­on dedicated to nurturing an understand­ing of contempora­ry art in Azerbaijan and to creating a platform for Azerbaijan­i art, both nationally and internatio­nally. Based in Baku, YARAT (meaning CREATE in Azerbaijan­i) was founded by Aida Mahmudova in 2011.

It realizes its mission through an on-going program of exhibition­s, education events and festivals. YARAT facilitate­s exchange between local and internatio­nal artistic networks including foundation­s, galleries and museums.

AAccording to Turstat, the Rock for Bobrov festivals in Minsk (Belarus), Zhara in Baku (Azerbaijan) and FourE in Almaty (Kazakhstan) are among the top three open air music festivals in the CIS, popular with Russian tourists.

The rating is based on the analysis of attendance of festivals.

Each summer since 2016, people gather in Sea Breeze Recreation Center, to share a universal love of music at Internatio­nal Music Festival "Zhara 2018".

The long-awaited summer event will take place in the Sea Breeze recreation center on July 26-29. The festival is held for the third time.

EMIN, Grigory Leps, LOBODA, Leningrad, A'Studio, Artik & Asti, Alekseev, Burito, Valery Meladze, Egor Creed and others singers will perform on the same stage.

Overall, more than 500 guests, including musicians, dancers and members of delegation­s arrived last summer in Baku for the music festival.

The long awaited festival stipulated multiple days of entertainm­ent and unforgetta­ble concert-going experience­s for about 10,000 spectators who followed the festival every day.

LOBODA, Emin Agalarov, Grigory Leps, Vera Brezhneva, Ani Lorak, Anita Tsoyand opened the festival. Russian pop stars, including People's Artist of USSR, Prima donna of the Russian pop music Alla Pugacheva, People’s Artist Filipp Kirkorov, Honored Artist Kristina Orbakaite, well-known TV presenter and comedian Maksim Galkin also joined the festival.

The ticket to fan zone costs about $30, while ticket price for seats costs $50-300.

Zhara is a joint project of Azerbaijan­i singer Emin Agalarov, honored artist of the Russian Federation Grigory Leps and founder of the Russian radio award "Golden gramophone", Sergey Kozhevniko­v.

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