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Фестиваль сейчас в отпуске. Следите за другими нашими событиями через https://www.facebook.com/MellnovfestMTU/! The term bard (Russian: "бард" bard) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishme
nt, similarly to folk singers of the American folk music revival. Because in bard music songwriters perform their own songs, the genre is also commonly referred to as author song ("авторская песня" avtorskaya pesnya). Another difference is that it focuses less on style and more on meaning. This means that fewer stylistic devices are used, and the poetry is often in the form of a narrative. What separates bard poetry from other songs is that the music is far less important than the lyrics; chord progressions are often very simple and tend to repeat from one bard song to another. A far more obvious difference is the commerce-free nature of the genre; songs written to be sung and not to be sold, as the bards are often working professionals in a non-musical occupation. One of the famous bards of the Soviet era - Yuliy KIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliy_Kim was participating in "Music of Falling Leaves 2014" festival. This year (2016) in the festival participates one of the famous bards of present days Yelena FROLOVA and trio “Trilogy” https://www.facebook.com/mellnovfest/posts/888195361289765
All the participants can perform in own mother tongue, but the main language of the festival is Russian. This time to the Festival are coming participants from 10 different countries: Estonia (Tallinn, Tartu), Finland (Helsinki), Sweden (Stockholm), Latvia (Riga), Armenia (Yerevan), Ukraine (Kiev, Lvov), Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Samara, and Kaliningrad), Germany (Hamburg, Düsseldorf, and Münster), Israel (Jerusalem, Afula) and USA (New York, San Francisco)
Traditionally audience of the festival picks the winner on Saturday after all guests and participants performed. On the last day of the Festival only guests and best 5 participants by audience choice perform. Announcement of the winner is at the last moments. The reward is always a piece of work of talented artist. Our Festival has been collaborating with such artists as Mati KARMIN (his “kissing students” miniature sculpture for last 6 years have been a symbol of the Festival all participants and guest of honor received), Epp KATUS (hew drawings you can see in Festivals Guest Book), Sergei INKATOV (head Prize, 2012), Anatolij ORLOV (Moscow, the Grand Prize in 2013), Misha TYUTYUNNIK (young artist from New York, Grand Prize of festival in 2014), etc. Main ARTISTS of 2016 Festival are from Germany:
Slava POTIEVSKIJ - artist and graphic designer
Elena POTIEVSKAJA - Member of German Artist Union
Maria REDKINA - Participated in a many exhibitions, especially dedicated to the Jewish community, both in Russia and Germany. More about the artists participating in the Festival this year you can find following the link http://mellnovfest.com/2016/08/16/hudozhniki-priezzhayushhie-na-festival-2016-goda/
Representatives of ESTONIA in our International Festival are Kristjan ÜKSKÜLA – actor of Tallinn City Theater and singer-songwriter, Dmitri MIKRJUKOV - singer-songwriter and Radio Journalist (Radio4), artists Nikolai BLESKOV (Tallinn), Elina GERODES (Tallinn) and Anna OTSOLAINEN – graphic designer and student of Sculpture department of Tartu Art College
