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13 August 2018

Media Representatives to Be Told about the Eleventh Spasskaya Tower Festival

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Recognized worldwide as a leading Military Tattoo the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival for the eleventh time is going to be held on Red Square from August 24 to September 2.

Over the years of its existence the show encompassing performances of some of the best military bands and artistic groups from all over the world has not merely conquered the hearts of the numerous audience (annually the Festival gathers more than 70 thousands of spectators) but has also been recognized by the seniors of the world’s Military Tattoo Movement thus proving its right to be among the top three such venues on par with the world’s famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo, held in Scotland since 1950, and Basel Military Tattoo, held in Switzerland since 2006.

27 military bands and artistic groups from 15 countries took part in the Festival in 2017, its jubilee year. All in all 2100 artists touched the stone-block pavement of Red Square. About a thousand of them were our guests from abroad including Austria, Armenia, Belorussia, Egypt, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, China, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Chile and Switzerland. The International Celtic Pipes and Drums representing the European Union included 120 musicians from Ireland, Great Britain, Scotland, Dane, Holland and Germany, and the International Scottish Highland Dance Team comprised 50 girls from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Holland, Russia and Scotland. All the events held within the 2017 Spasskaya Tower Festival scored the maximum attendance by the audience as well as big interest from the participants, public and Media.

Apart from Red Square, Russian and foreign groups presented their programs onstage of Moscow’s public venues featuring five railway stations and thirteen parks and gardens. Tens of thousands of the Muscovites and guests of the capital attended free events organized within the daytime activities onsite of the Children Playground and horse riding arena, traditionally constructed for the Festival on the main square of the country.

So, what about the Eleventh Spasskaya Tower Festival? What have been prepared for the admirers of the international military music show? These questions and many others are going to be answered by the organizers and participants of the Festival on the 16th of August at the Multimedia press conference in the press canter of the Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency.

Media representatives have the opportunity to learn the details of the forthcoming events and ask their questions to Lieutenant General Sergey KHLEBNIKOV, member of the Festival’s Public Council and Head of the Service of Moscow Kremlin’s Commandant of the Federal Guard Service of Russia — Moscow Kremlin’s Commandant; Alexander KIBOVSKIY, Minister of the Moscow Government and Head of the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow; Sergey SMIRNOV, Head of the Festival’s Directorate and Executive Secretary of the Festival’s Public Council; Colonel Timofey MAYAKIN, Head of the Military Music Band Service of the Russian Armed Forces-Chief Military Conductor; Boris PETROV, Head of the Kremlin Equestrian School; Colonel Evgeniy NIKITIN, Artistic Director of the Children and Youth Brass Bands Festival of the Spasskaya Tower for Children program, Deputy Head of the Band — Head of the Second Division — Military Conductor of the President’s Band of the Service of Moscow Kremlin’s Commandant of the Federal Guard Service of Russia.

Representatives of the embassies and military attaché offices of the countries, participants of the Festival, will also take part in the press conference.

This large scale and grandiose celebration of music in the very heart of Moscow would be impossible without the support of the permanent partners of the Festival including Rostec State Corporation, JSC ROSOBORONEXPORT and Transneft Company which over all these years have been loyal and sincere friends of the Spasskaya Tower Festival. These big Russian companies render multifaceted support to the Festival assisting its development as well as retaining the status of the broad-scale international project being in demand both nationally and abroad.

“Rostec traditionally acts as the partner of the Spasskaya Tower Festival. Over its ten years history 150 military bands and artistic groups from 50 countries performed on Red Square in Moscow, and the Festival itself has become the symbol of Moscow. The Festival provides for establishing a dialogue of friendship between the nations as well as mutual understanding among them. It is a genuinely beautiful and remarkable event where one can get familiar with different cultural and military traditions, uniforms and repertoires of military bands from all over the world,” told Sergey CHEMEZOV, CEO of Rostec State Corporation

“The Spasskaya Tower Festival is a brilliant and excellent example of art uniting nations as well as aspirations of people from all over the world to create and make bold experiments in the kingdom of dance and music, greatest gifts of mankind legacy,” noted Alexander MIKHEEV, CEO of Rosoboronexport

According to Nikolai TOKAREV, President of Transneft Company, “The Spasskaya Tower Festival is the clear evidence that today there are a lot of opportunities and of potential areas to foster friendship and cooperation. And most importantly, there is enough good will and common sense to translate these opportunities into reality”.

The Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency is the official Festival’s news agency.

Grand in its scope and unique in its emotional impact, the Eleventh Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival will become a vibrant celebration of music of the year 2018, uniting nations from all over the world.

Dear Media representatives we are glad to invite you to the Presidential Hall of the Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency press center (Zubovskiy Bulvar, 4) where the 2018 Spasskaya Tower Festival press conference is going to be held on August 16 at 12:00.

The application to get accreditation can be forwarded to the following email address: media@spasstower.ru

All applications should be submitted not later than August 15 up to 18:00

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