Crimea Music Fest
Crimea Music Fest is an International Music Festival and International Vocal Competition, which took place in Yalta. Young performers from all 5 continents of the world took part in the festival. The headliners of the festival were Ruslana, Goran Bregovic, Sergey Lazarev, and other popular performers from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The patroness of the festival was Alla Pugacheva. The festival took place in 2011 and 2012. The festival was shortlisted for the ZD Awards in the event of the year category.
The first festival (2011)
Held from September 6 till September 10, 2011. Representatives from 19 different countries of five continents participated in competition program of the first festival. Participants age limit was from 18 till 30 years old inclusive. Each contestant presented two songs – the first performance was in the ethnic style representing national peculiarities of the contestants native country. The participants represented the world-famous hits during the second performance.The jury chairperson of the contest is Sophia Rotaru, People's Artist of three countries. Members of the International Jury: co-chairman Valery Leontiev, co-chairman Gloria Gaynor, Alexander Bard, Demis Roussos, Erol Yaras, Antero Payvalaynen. Grand Prix of the festival and the first prize of USD100, 000 were awarded to Carolina Soto from Chile. The 2nd place won the participant Nikhil D'Souza, the third place jury awarded to the sisters Umara Sinhawansa and Umaria Sinhawansa. The Art Director of the festival Alla Pugacheva awarded "Alla`s star" to Rin'Go band.