Zaxidfest
| Zaxidfest | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Rock, ethnic, electronic |
| Dates | three days in the middle of August |
| Location(s) | Lviv oblast, Ukraine |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Founders | Yakiv Matviychuk |
| Website | zaxidfest |
Zakhid (stylized as ZAXID) (Ukrainian: Захід) is an annual international music and art festival which is held near Lviv in the middle of August. Zakhid was founded in 2009 as a festival of Ukrainian rock and ethno music.[1][2] Later it has lost an attachment to some concrete music genre and was expanded by different foreign artists (among them such bands as Anti-Flag, Caliban, Clawfinger, Ektomorf, Everlast, Ill Niño, Kreator, Oomph!, Zdob şi Zdub and others).[3]
Every year organizators conduct online-surveys where anybody can propose and vote for some artist. In this way the list of participants is formed. Also some artists are invited for organizators' initiative and their names are hidden till the tickets come in sale.[4]
The festival name means in Ukrainian equivocally West and Event.
Location
In 2009 and 2010 Zakhid was held in towns of Zvenyhorod and Stare Selo[5] respectively (around 20 km from Lviv). Since 2011 the festival has been held near the village of Rodatychi (around 40 km from Lviv).
Participants
There is a list of some Zakhid participants:
- Alina Orlova
- Anti-Flag
- Atmasfera
- BoomBox
- Braty Hadiukiny
- Caliban
- Clawfinger
- Dakh Daughters
- Dymna Sumish
- Ektomorf
- Everlast
- Flit
- Flunk
- Ill Niño
- Krambambula
- Kreator
- Krykhitka Tsakhes
- Luk
- Liapis Trubetskoi
- Noize MC
- Oomph!
- Perkalaba
- Qarpa
- Skriabin
- Tartak
- Tin Sontsia
- TNMK
- Vopli Vidopliasova
- Zdob şi Zdub
- Zhadan i Sobaky