World Music Tree planted on Slavic Bazaar's stage
The Slavic Bazaar's stage in Vitsebsk on May 26 turned into a folk floor of the first Belarusian ethno-music festival World Music Tree. Ivan Kirchuk (Trinity) joked sarcastically in an interview with the European Radio for Belarus that the Belarusian scene is so poor in terms of events that even an ordinary concert of three bands is called a festival! The organizers say this is just the beginning and plan to grow "a musical tree of Belarus". “We are planting a tree, Life's Tree. We are raising it and giving it strength every year. We would like this symbol to unite the Belarusian people, because it is a tree that is the bottom-line of fairy-tales, myths and legens…” (from the festival's press release).
The organizers invited three bands to participate: Troitsa (Trinity), Palace and Osimira (the latter considering themselves as the students of the first two bands).
Over 1000 people attended the festival and seemed to be totally satisfied with the quality of the sound. Troitsa sang several new songs that were not included into the Son-Trava album and would be released in September only. The band decided to experiment with guitar sound and demonstrated Troitsa's "new face". I would not be surprised indeed if Troitsa could be seen on the dancing floors. Troitsa's folk, placed on the rythmic groove and distorted guitars, sounds exactly like the music in the best club hang-outs! It is a wonderful thing, so don't you oversleep Troitsa's release in September!
Palace sang several hits, and beautiful violinists from Osimira made the audience take a deep breath and burst out into the pagan dancing!
Below is a brief photo history of the World Music Tree festival.
Festival's web site: www.ethnoza.msk.ru
Photo & video by Rusya
The organizers invited three bands to participate: Troitsa (Trinity), Palace and Osimira (the latter considering themselves as the students of the first two bands).
Over 1000 people attended the festival and seemed to be totally satisfied with the quality of the sound. Troitsa sang several new songs that were not included into the Son-Trava album and would be released in September only. The band decided to experiment with guitar sound and demonstrated Troitsa's "new face". I would not be surprised indeed if Troitsa could be seen on the dancing floors. Troitsa's folk, placed on the rythmic groove and distorted guitars, sounds exactly like the music in the best club hang-outs! It is a wonderful thing, so don't you oversleep Troitsa's release in September!
Palace sang several hits, and beautiful violinists from Osimira made the audience take a deep breath and burst out into the pagan dancing!
Below is a brief photo history of the World Music Tree festival.
Festival's web site: www.ethnoza.msk.ru
Photo & video by Rusya
