Kharkov will join the World Music Day: a number of interesting events will take place in the city on June 23.

Festival "Day of Music" is held in the city for the fifth time. Every year the scale of the festival increases: new venues, styles, musicians and projects from related art areas. This year, together with musicians, a festival for the townspeople will be created by actors, dancers, lecturers, artists. Artists will perform in a variety of places - the city will operate 40 outdoor and indoor grounds. Performers of folk and jazz music, hip-hop and classics, punk rock and gospel.

The festival will be opened by the orchestra and soloists of "Сxid OPERA" at the steps of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after N. Lysenko. Guests of the festival will be the first to see the presentation of the fragment of the new opera "Swat involuntarily". Also on this day, the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic invites city residents to an open rehearsal of the symphony orchestra and an organ concert. A separate event will be the performance of brass bands in front of the opera house. Also there will pass a concert in a court yard of the Kharkov regional radio.

The organizers note that Kharkiv citizens will not only hear the best Kharkov musicians, but will also learn more about the history of music, they will be able to take part in musical jam, dance lessons, listen to the acoustics of the Catholic cathedral, march with a military band and ride along with the bicycle parade.

"Music Day" is a large-scale volunteer project created by Kharkiv residents for Kharkiv citizens. We want to give a holiday to the city and make it so that as many people as possible can take part in it and see how many interesting things there are in our city. The main rule of the Day of Music all over the world is free music, free space. We invite everyone who loves music, go out with musical instruments and join the holiday, "- noted the co-organizer of the festival Alina Khanbabaeva.

Entrance to all events is free of charge.

The full program of the festival is available here..