"ZHARA" Festival
GenrePop music
Location(s) Azerbaijan, Baku
 Germany, Düsseldorf
 Monaco
 United Arab Emirates, Dubai
 Russia, Sochi
 Turkey, Bodrum
Years active2016-present
Websitehttps://zhara.tv/

"ZHARA" Festival is a music festival, which takes place in Azerbaijan, near the coast of Caspian Sea every year. “Zhara” was founded by Grigory Leps, Sergey Kozhevnikov, and Emin Aghalarov. The spectator venue reaches 10 000 spectators at a time.[1] The main audience of the festival are people from Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. One of the main guests of this festival was Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian Federation's president.[2]

History of festival

The first “Zhara” festival was held in Baku, on 9 July 2016.

The second festival was held on 27 July 2017. This time even more CIS stars such as Valeriya, LOBODA, Sergey Lazarev, “Gradusy” band, Timur Rodrigues and others joined the festival.[3]

The third festival was held on 27 July 2018. Special guest Steven Seagal sang in a duet with Emin Aghalarov. Other special guests were: Baskov, singers from Black Star inc. label.[4]

After 3 years of the festival's creation, it was also held in Dubai, UAE.[2]

List of stars in the first festival was:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ZHARA FESTIVAL". azerbaijan.travel. Archived from the original on 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. 1 2 "В Дубае прошел фестиваль "Жара" с участием российских артистов". РИА Новости (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  3. ↑ Baku, Shahin Rzaev |. "International Music Festival 'Zhara-2017' kicks off in Baku". Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  4. ↑ "Rusiyalı məşhurlar "Jara" festivalına görə Bakıya axın etdi - FOTO". Milli.Az (in Azerbaijani). 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  5. ↑ ""Жара-2016" в Баку: самые яркие моменты фестиваля". ru.hellomagazine.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-05-14.
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