Glubokoye to celebrate Belarus' folk music at international pipe fest
12 April 2019
The
international festival Dudarsky Rei (Pipe Domination) will take place in
Glubokoye, Vitebsk Oblast, on 3-5 May, BelTA learned from the Glubokoye
District Executive Committee.
The
festival will bring together musicians from Poland, Macedonia, Belarus, Croatia
and Russia. The three-day program will feature parties, master classes and a
solemn service in a Catholic church. The opening ceremony will take place on
the Alley of Famous Natives, at the monument to Ignat Buinitsky, the founder of
the first professional national theater of Belarus. Ignat Buinitsky invited a
pipe musician to his theater company.
Musicians will give an improvised
performance there. After that the festival will move to the settlement of
Podsvilie where the musicians will march in a procession. In the evening the
representatives of the participating states will present music traditions of
their regions on the bank of Plissa Lake. The festival is organized by the
Glubokoye District Executive Committee and Vitaly Voronov, Belarusian
translator, literary man, publisher, and opinion journalist, native of
Glubokoye District.