Today, September 24, the GKZ "Bashkortostan" stage hosted the opening of the "Voices of Russia" festival, which is being held in Ufa for the first time. The start of the musical marathon was given by the State Academic Siberian Russian Folk Choir under the direction of Honored Artist of Russia Nikolai Lugin.

"The concert program of the Siberian Choir is an organic consonance of historical and contemporary artistic material that reveals to the viewer the uniqueness of the traditional Russian national culture and the peculiarity of the Siberian soul. Artists make Russian traditional art fashionable, interesting and prestigious, preserving its identity, creating a highly artistic competitive product, adapted to the consciousness of the modern spectator, "the organizers emphasized.

Today, Russian folk songs "On the wild steppes of the Trans-Baikal", "Thin Rowan", "From the mountains, mountains", "You Rise, the Red Sun", etc. were performed, as well as the choir presented the vocal and choreographic compositions "Earth, Beauty Siberia "," From the forest, boron ". An ensemble of folk instruments led by soloists (laureate of the international competition - S. Sidorov, domra, A. Savin, balalaika) performed Variations on two Russian themes. The concert became a real bright holiday for the Ufa viewer, who duly presented the professionals with a storm of applause.

The festival will continue on September 30, October 4 and 17, the concerts of the project will take place on the stage of the City Palace of Culture.