Zhara Festival is a five-day music festival which takes place in Azerbaijan, near the coast of Caspian Sea every year. “Zhara” was founded in 2016 by Grigory Leps, Sergey Kozhevnikov, and Emin Aghalarov. Drawing 10,000 attendees to each year's festival,[1] "Zhara" is one of the largest music festivals held within Commonwealth of Independent States countries.[2] One of the main guests of this festival was Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian Federation's president.[3]
| "Zhara" International Music Festival | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Pop music |
| Location(s) |  Azerbaijan, Baku Germany, Düsseldorf Monaco United Arab Emirates, Dubai Russia, Sochi Turkey, Bodrum |
| Years active | 2016-present |
| Website | https://zhara.tv/ |
History of festival
editThe first “Zhara” festival was held in Baku, on 9 July 2016.
The second festival was held on 27 July 2017. This time even more CIS stars such as Valeriya, Loboda, Sergey Lazarev, “Gradusy” band, Timur Rodrigues and others joined the festival.[4]
The third festival was held on 27 July 2018. Special guest Steven Seagal sang in a duet with Emin Aghalarov. Other special guests were: Baskov, singers from Black Star inc. label.[5]
After 3 years of the festival's creation, it was also held in Dubai, UAE.[3]
List of stars in the first festival was:
- A-DESSA
- Katya Lel
- Zulfiyya Khanbabayeva
- Philip Kirkorov
- Aleksandr Revva
- Vlad Sokolovsky
- Tomas Nevergreen
- Polina Gagarina[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Zhara Festival". azerbaijan.travel. Archived from the original on 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ "Baku is ready for international summer music festival Zhara". Azertac. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ a b "В Дубае прошел фестиваль "Жара" с участием российских артистов". РИА Новости (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Rzaev, Shahin. "International Music Festival 'Zhara-2017' kicks off in Baku". Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ "Rusiyalı məşhurlar "Jara" festivalına görə Bakıya axın etdi - Foto". Milli.Az (in Azerbaijani). 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ ""Жара-2016" в Баку: самые яркие моменты фестиваля". ru.hellomagazine.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-05-14.