Performance of “Star Soul and Country Music” American singer and songwriter Mary McBride in the courtyard of the Kaluga Regional Museum today, July 8 in the evening, was opened at the annual international project “Guitar World” season “Summer Jam”. As told BakuToday artistic director of the festival, Kaluga, musician and producer Oleg Akimov, “Summer Jam” in Kaluga, a ten-year history.
In the festival concerts take part in popular musicians from Russia and abroad, performing a mixture of music of various styles, from traditional jazz and blues to fusion, folk and rock and roll. At this time kaluzhane and guests get acquainted with the performance of the global star Mary McBride – country-folk, soul and rock singer, songwriter “No One’s Gonna Love You like Me”, voiced in the movie “Brokeback Mountain” and included in its soundtrack. McBride released in the U.S. a few albums, as well as at the invitation of Sir Elton John performed at the concert dedicated to 35th anniversary of the song “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. She is also known in America, “home concerts”.
Mary McBride in Russia for the first time. It makes a tour of cities throughout the country within the framework of “American season in Russia,” organized at the initiative of the Russian-American bilateral presidential commission. “The American Seasons” is intended to acquaint the Russian public with the best musical culture of the United States. Seasons will end in April 2012 entry into Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In the current festival’s concert program will also perform the famous jazz violin virtuoso from Moscow Osmolovskii George and his new capital group “Dzhagobend.” Another big-name guest nights Moscow rock guitarist Yuri Matveyev, a composer, a concert virtuoso electroacoustic guitar, founder of the duo “The White Jail,” known in the West as the Two Siberians, repeated participant prestigious festivals in Europe and the USA.
A Kaluga musicians at the festival will present “Jazzatov band” under the direction of Novel Azatova – The young composer, saxophonist and pianist.
An integral part of the summer music festival, an exhibition of artists and handicraft. The second concert of the festival kaluzhane be able to visit in August.
