The sun will rise

Yekaterinburg is a very musical city. Once there was a Sverdlovsk rock club, from which Nautilus Pompilius, Chayf, Agatha Christie and Semlosed Hallucinations emerged. Now the city has the Ural Musical College for gifted children, where Valery Gergiev regularly recruits orchestrandants, the Opera and Ballet Theater, which regularly supplies nominees for the Golden Mask, and one of the best concert clubs in Russia Tele-Club . The enthusiasm of the inhabitants of Yekaterinburg is easily read from the city map. The Yekaterinburgers perpeturated in the sculpture The Beatles , Michael Jackson, Vladimir Vysotsky with Marina Vladi and the founder of the Pesnyarov Vladimir Mulyavin, brought up the Vysotsky skyscraper and the underground transition named after Viktor Tsoi. You can suspect the townspeople in Melomania by just walking around the city and reading signs: Amy Wine House wine bar, Ringo jewelry, etc. Therefore, having learned that in Yekaterinburg they set a goal to acquire a festival that would make the city of one of the musical capitals of the world, you are not especially surprised. By the way, it has been held for the third year - on the shortest summer night, and, according to the assurances of the organizers, this is the fastest growing festival of the country. It is called Ural Music Night . Its concept is that for one night-from evening to sunrise-the center of Yekaterinburg turns into an extensive complex of sites, which take place free concerts in various genres-from opera singing and musical instruments to bard songs and eight-bit electronics, from the chamber plays of Arvo Pyurt and Philip Gali to Gali 's Dream. Chikis .

“Well, who would know Cannes if not for the film festival? And Munich would have visited so many tourists if not for Oktoberfest? ” -says the organizer of Ural Music Night Evgeny Gorenburg, who was at the origins of the Sverdlovsk rock club and has been organizing the old new rock in Yekaterinburg since 2000. With a hairstyle, as a Boniface, Evgeny Gorenburg, dressed in a bright orange shirt, is scored by energy and confidence in the great international future of his new project. Three years ago, in the year of the debut, Ural Music Night started from 40 sites and gathered an audience of 70 thousand people, in 2016 there were 70 sites, and visitors were 120 thousand and another 450 thousand watched a direct online broadcast from several main points of the festival. This year, the organizers, bringing the number of sites to 100, put a bar of 150 thousand people, that is, in one tenth of the population of Yekaterinburg. “I’m just sure that we will gradually turn into a truly international festival,” says Eugene Gorenburg, “in the sense that people from all over the world will specially come here, because there will not be such a number of completely different music performed by stars in one night and, I am sure, will not be sure. And having arrived, they will be able to see other attractions - we have something to show. ” The PR director of Ural Music Night Alexei Kalistratov adds: "I want Yekaterinburg to be known not only because the king is crooking here."

The site of Ural Music Night can be any space where you can arrange a free concert. That night, urban squares, squares, restaurants, cafes, clubs, winery, craft pubs, the courtyard of the constructivist hotel Iset, the balcony of the opera theater, the steps of the public library, the glamorous department store, the roof of the museum of history and even the city pond, on which they built a floating scheme. Folk-collectives, “bravo” and “megapolis”, honored bards, heroes of indie muses, Ural rappers, jazz-antenams, blues groups and performers on the Sitars and prefixes of Gameboy spoke in front of the Yekaterinburgers. Due to the fact that the center of Yekaterinburg is compact (it is a square with a side of 2.5 km, which can go around on foot) and there are few residential buildings in it, dissatisfied with the fact that music is rattling in the city until early morning, and there are no streams of people heated by art with a noise. Even the cordons of police officers and wabs from chipsters and metal detectors are not visible, which invariably furnished any mass event in the concerned security of Moscow. The final gala production of Ural Music Night is the Hedliner concert in the Central October Square at the Drama Theater. With dawn in the square, the ritual collective performance of the song “Sun will rise” from “Bremen musicians”, clusters of orange balloons are released into the sky, and the spectators who hung up with delight that hugged until the morning, catch the first rays of the sun into the dummy of the mirrors hesdated. The action of the action resembles a cross between a flash mob, a performance and a pagan rite, which should conjure the solar future of Yekaterinburg and the festival, which is going to become his business card.

In dreams about the international future Urals Music Night Evgeny Gorenburg wanted to call Ringo Starr the headliner of this night. If the famous Beatle performed a song from the Soviet cartoon inspired by the music The Beatles - it would be a symbolic gesture and a spectacular ending for any festival. With the management of Ringo Starra, they even managed to discuss the fee, but it didn’t go further. Ural Music Night did not have enough financial support for local authorities and business, so the organizers had to moderate ambitions. The main character of the festival in the next, already third, once was the trouble -free Vadim Samoilov, who opened and covered his program with his group. In addition to the fact that the rocker-state spoke twice at the festival, sparing his new songs, absent from his brother Hits Agatha Christie and Ray of the Sun Golden, he took over the functions of the director of the Rock Music School on Ural Music Night , selecting 12 groups at the competition of children's groups and holding several master classes with them. “At first it was annoyed that this festival was called English, and now I see that he has an international future,” Vadim Samoilov expressed his attitude to what was happening, briefly looking up from Soundchek with schoolchildren, on which he enthusiastically replaced the drummers in children's groups. When asked whether he will execute it on Urals Music Night his new song “For the Donbass”, the ex-participant of Agatha Christie replied: “Children are here. Why involve them in our adult affairs? "

Despite the presence in the program of the festival, at which more than a thousand musicians, complex music and artists with international authority gather, the main thing is that the Urals are strong Music Night is a violent spirit of youth that the streets of Yekaterinburg breathe on this night. Having maneuvering in Yekaterinburg streets youth flows, you feel like a grand graduation, infected with enthusiasm in confidence in tomorrow's sunny day and a long happy life. Ural festival Music Night is still very young. To achieve international fame, he, as a graduate, needs to decide who he wants to be - a massive festivities, a fair of musical talents or a status festival with a star linep, do not try to embrace the immense, and will certainly work out because the place for the festival is very suitable.