A breath of "Volnaje Pavetra" / "Fresh Air"

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Music festival "Volnaje Pavetra"(Fresh air) was held near for the fifth time. Despite the international status of the festival, its organizers, as always, staked on Belarusan-speaking music bands and they didn’t regret it. 

Music festival "Volnaje Pavetra" (“Fresh air”) was held near Valozyn for the fifth time. Despite the international status of the festival, its organizers, as always, staked on Belarusan-speaking music bands and they didn’t regret it. 

On Saturday, August 25, there gathered in an isolated farmstead of Šabli about one and a half thousand spectators and around a hundred of musicians to take part in one of the most exciting and unusual music festivals in Belarus.

As assured by the organizers, the actual event has surpassed all the previous ones by the geography of the participants. One of the headliners of the “Volnaje Pavetra” was a music band from East Berlin, Di Grine Kuzine. The musicians performed a crazy mix of klezmer, Bulgarian folk songs, pop, ska and Latin music.

Herewith, the festival has remained true to the original idea - focus on the Belarusan culture. As before, the event was attended by a large number of talented Belarusan ethnic groups. Among them were a successful and respected Troitsa, a young music band Harotnica, a creative union of a Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha and a Belarusan instrumental trio Port Mone, merged into Khmeleva project.

It is noteworthy that the festival was held in parallel on two stages. While the great masters were performing at the big stage, a small one was inflamed by DJs. So everyone who had come in Šabli had a chance to choose a music band according to his taste.

An open championship by throwing cow bricks of dry dung was also held at the "Volnaje Pavetra". The winner shot a "cake" as much as 54 meters. However, according to some viewers, he had cheated, because he gave himself the trouble to sculpt the "bomb" of an object of throwing.

In whole, the festival was held without incidents, despite the abundance of riot police who arrived unexpectedly, being obviously foreign bodies at an event called "Volnaje Pavetra" (as the event name has a word for word meaning “free air”).