The 2025 Spasskaya Tower Festival Foreign Cast to Perform in Moscow’s Parks and Gardens

This Sunday, August 24, the Spasskaya Tower International Military Tattoo is looking forward to meeting you all in Moscow’s parks and gardens. As many as nine parks of the Russian capital will open their doors to host performances by the Festival’s foreign cast. Don’t hesitate and join us at 13:00 to enjoy vibrant African beats, authentic Bedouin tunes, touching Mongolian songs and a plethora of surprises.

The Kuzminki-Lublino Park in the east of Moscow will host our guests from Belarus. Joining hands with the Band of the Honor Guard of the Minsk Military Commandant’s Unit, the Exemplary Band of the Belarus Armed Forces will present the audience’s traditional Belarus melodies with a modern twist.

Meanwhile, everyone strolling along the Gorkiy Park will have a chance to recharge the batteries with the most vivid vibes translated by the Presidential Orchestra of Burkina Faso. The leading artistic team of the Burkinabe state will illuminate Moscow with its never-ending energy and positive vibes.

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces Band will blend classic military marches with African folk tunes in the Taganskiy Park, with their music sketch being an illustrious emblem of national unity and cultural identity.

As for Moscow’s Tsaritsyno Park, it will give the floor for the medieval art of flag-toss acrobatics from Italy. The Historic Flag-Wavers of the Contrade of Cori will wow the audiences with the graceful and elegant art of twirling, throwing, tossing, and rotating the flags, transporting the audience to an atmosphere of distant Renaissance times.

The Central Military Band and Central Ensemble of the National Military and Patriotic Center of the Kazakhstan Armed Forces will land in the Ermitazh Garden, right in the city center. This acclaimed leading artistic team will once again prove that military musicians can indeed step out of the box and master all the genres imaginable. This time our guests from Kazakhstan will present the audiences popular music pieces by Russian and foreign authors arranged in their unique manner.

Meanwhile, the Mongolia’s Military Song and Dance Academic Ensemble will turn the Izmailovskiy Park into a piece of Mongolian prairie in Moscow, creating the authentic atmosphere through traditional folk songs, dances and outfits. The ensemble has given start to a lot of well-known Mongolia’s artists and singers, including over 80 honorary artists.

The Red Presnya Park will open its doors for the Band of the Sharjah Police Science Academy. Representing the UAE rich cultural heritage, the ensemble’s musicians are taking to Moscow their vast repertoire where classical masterpieces and contemporary hits seamlessly blend in with folk and traditional songs. Sound of traditional Arab instruments, like various-sized drums and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument resembling a lute, as well as an electric violin will engulf the shadowy lanes of the park taking its visitors into an enchanting journey through the Middle East.

The Police Orchestra of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Srpska will take the stage in Moscow’s Bauman Garden. They will perform a variety of genres, from military marches and traditional Balkan songs to famous international pieces, proving that military musicians can break free from the strictly protocol-based instrumental patterns.

Last but not least, the Ethiopian National Defence Force Marching Band will pay a visit to the Vorontsovo Estate Park. Our guests from the African continent will perform national and patriotic pieces that are reminiscent of traditional Ethiopian battle songs along with the classical military marches composed under European and Russian music patterns.

However, if you happen to be intrigued and want to witness all of these different stories, we invite you to become part of the Spasskaya Tower International Military Tattoo unfolding between August 22 and 31 in Moscow.