The Zavtra International Music Festival took place in Moscow on June 9, 2012. A grandiose event took place at the Green Theater in Gorky Park. Live performances of extraordinary artists from the near and far abroad were held with a full house and with merry dances in the stands.
The festival was attended by the American-French singer Maya Vidal, the rising star from Ukraine Ivan Dorn, the Georgian jazz singer Nino Katamadze with the Insight collective, pop-rockers from Latvia Brainstorm. The highlight of the program was a young, but already quite popular Frenchwoman ZAZ, whose real name is Isabelle Jeffroy.
The festival was opened by Maya Vidal. To arrange her compositions, this fragile and perky girl uses the accordion, violins, percussion, guitars and even toy instruments. But the most important "instrument" of Maya is her unique gentle and soft voice, which is able to send the listener on a real musical journey through time. The singer appeared in front of the audience at exactly six o'clock in the evening, as it was announced on the poster, but by that moment the benches of the Green Theater were half empty - the line of people wishing to get to the festival stretched hundreds of meters in front of the entrance. Therefore, some viewers did not have time to get to its beginning. Despite this, almost everyone managed to see and listen to Vidal, since Ivan Dorn, who was supposed to go on stage second, was half an hour late, and Maya, instead of the hour allotted to her, played all one and a half.
Despite the considerable delay, the people met the Ukrainian Dorn quite actively. A cocktail of funk, house and lyricism makes the songs of this musician, who, by the way, many call the "breakthrough of the year", truly bright, and his unusual vocals quickly turn them into real hits.
The next participants in the open-air were the musicians of the Brainstorm collective. Latvians sang literally all of their hit songs: from "Million Minutes" to "Maybe". The audience actively sang along to the group.
Following the Latvian collective came the jazz diva from Georgia Nino Katamadze. Whatever she did on stage: she danced, played the synthesizer masterly, sent air kisses to the audience and even put a tambourine on her head. The girl performed her legendary composition "Suliko" in a dance parterre. Her performance ended with a friendly choral singing. The audience accompanied the Georgian woman with deafening applause.
At the end of the festival, Zaz took the stage and began her performance with a perky song "Les passants". After her, she greeted the audience with a phrase in broken Russian: "Good afternoon!", Which caused a wave of applause. The audience accompanied every song of the French guest with a storm of delight. However, most of all, the audience was waiting for the song "Je Veux", which at one time and glorified the singer.
This is how the Zavtra concert in Moscow went. Ticket prices ranged from 1, 5 to 3 thousand rubles. The audience was satisfied with this event, so it can be argued that the Zavtra festival will have an interesting and long history.
