On July 23, 2011, the eighth Afisha Picnic took place in Kolomenskoye. Under the open sky, amidst nature and music flowing from four stages, tens of thousands of Muscovites and visitors to the capital relaxed and soaked up the sun. Numerous bands of various styles and genres performed. The headliner was Courtney Love, and Zemfira, whose fans had long yearned for her music and live performances, closed the festival on the main stage. Here’s a small photo set for your attention.
On July 9, 2011, the first International Tsar Jazz Festival took place, featuring global jazz stars performing alongside Georgy Garanian's orchestra. I was most eager to see and hear the legendary Benny Golson, who played in the 1950s with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Now 82 years old, he still performs hour-long concerts—simply incredible!
I didn’t take many photos because, as a friend of mine once said: “Never bring a camera to a concert! Either you’ll leave without photos, or you won’t even remember what they played.” Aside from Golson, I thoroughly enjoyed the performances of Mary McBride and the New York Voices quartet. But the highlight came at the end, when it started raining, and the musicians launched into a final improvisation! The crowd stood in the rain and danced. One man, in particular, danced with such energy… I truly indulged in photographing him. 🙂
12 июня в день празднования Дня России на Поклонной горе состоялся open-air Metro On Stage. Выступали молодые группы Москвы и гости из Минска, Челябинска и Финляндии. Играли в основном инди-рок и альтернативу. Мне больше понравились «два Океана» — это группа Andy Ocean, и группа Ocean Waves. Ну и особым вниманием зрителей конечно была одарена группа Душа Питера из Финляндии исполнявшая песни на русском языке! Душа Питера запомнится еще и неожиданной акцией по распространению резиновых изделий со своей символикой 🙂
On June 5 on Sretensky Boulevard, near the Krupskaya Monument, the open project "**Estamos en Movimiento**" organized a master class in Latin dances merenguero (merengue) and bachata (bachata). A bonus was a faculty demonstration and a macarena lesson. Everyone was given free chocolates from sponsors and even raffled off a t-shirt. Waves of positivity dissolved in the rays of the setting sun to the rhythms of Latin American melodies.
Because of the traffic collapse at the entrance to this year I was late by 2 hours, as a result I took few pictures, but listened to the performance of those who wanted — is Zhenya Lubich and the Billy’s Band. The festival itself is, as always, extraordinarily positive and colorful. Lots of people with kids from 0 to 70. 🙂 The kids were entertained with all sorts of creative contests, eating sweets and other antics. Adults were entertained by 5 music venues with a variety of music. The Parterre was crowded as always especially during the Billy’s Band performance. A few photos from Manor Jazz 2011 for your attention.
On May 27, 2011 the second championship on playing these nostalgia generators was held in the museum of Soviet slot machines. There are new automatons Skorokhod, Pilot, Python. Most of the old ones have been restored and are functional. As many as 3 Torpedo Attack machines, two of which are for doubles play. As always, the greatest outburst of emotions caused battles in Hockey, Basketball, and Football. The sponsors this time made us happy and provided many different cool prizes for the winners, and all the participants got free Zhiguli beer in unlimited quantities! Let's see how it was.
On May 21 and 22 in Moscow in the Yabloneviy Art Garden was held festival PROspaces 2011. The program of the festival was made up of open-air performances of various musicians playing music of intricate directions: Hippie dub, abstract fusion, ethno type-hop… and a lot of other scary words. But it was actually very melodic and caressing to the ear. In addition to the musicians, there were a lot of things to see — a bunch of lectures on tourism and travel, freemarket, exhibitions, handmade jewelry and musical instruments... two May days of music, creativity, kindness and understanding on the grounds of the Apple Tree Art Garden.
В субботу 16 апреля в Москве прошел Russian final of Imagine Cup 2011. Этот конкурс новаторских технологий и разработок проводится компанией Microsoft уже в 8-й раз. В этом году в Russian final of вышли 8 команд, в конкурсе программных проектов, и 4 команды в конкурсе встраиваемых систем. Как проходил конкурс и чего интересного происходило в фойе, за рамками соревнований приглашаю посмотреть на фото.
On the night from April 2 to April 3 in the skatepark Adrenaline was held the final roller madness for the season 2010-2011 - **Roller Adrenaline Night 10** organized by Kirill Ryazantsev's Rollerschool and the Rollerclub store with the support of roller.ru and Trampoline City. The best rollers of Russia, world champions and other crazies and maniacs participated 🙂 few photos from RAN10.
Photos from the ceremonial burning of the largest effigy of Maslenitsa, which took place on March 6, 2011 in the Istrinskaya Valley as part of the holiday "Shirokaya Maslenitsa 2011". Before burning, the effigy was carefully measured in height and width to get into some record book. And it was great! I suggest we see how it was...
