The participants are removed from the Crimea Fest

The International Tourist Musical Festival "Crimea Fest", which begins today, July 21, near Sevastopol, loses the participants. Among the groups that refused to participate in the festival, 25/17, Distemper and “Cockroaches!”.

The refusal to participate in Crimea Fest was also announced by Plush Fish , Origami, Illidiance , Display , Sun Project , “Insight”, Digital Digital , “Purgen”, “Murakami”, “Sounds.ru” reported. Earlier it became known that the Israeli Electronic Electron workers Infected Mushroom will not come to the Crimea.

As a reason, most of the performers give the organizers of the previously reached agreements, some talk about the rejection of the “cheers-patriotic” orientation of the festival. According to NTV , "many [foreign groups] refused to come due to sanctions against Crimea as well as threats that they began to receive from their Ukrainian fans."

It was originally planned to open the festival on July 20, but due to organizational problems, the opening was postponed to July 21. Today at 16:00 on the Crimea Fest began the sound.

In addition, on July 20, the owners of the Krymfest brand (since 1999) officially stated that its use by the festival illegally.