Basovišča or Basowiszcza (, , pronounced in Belarusian; Belarusian Youth Music Festival) is the festival of Belarusian alternative and rock music, which is annually conducted by the Belarusian Association of Students since 1990. The festival takes place during two July days in the Borak forest in Gmina of Gródek,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. The important part of the festival is the music contest, in which young bands compete for prizes - usually money and rights to record their album for free. Well-known stars of

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ian, Ukrainian and Polish rock-scene usually perform there too. From five to twelve thousand people come to the festival every year.

History

2006

17th Basovišča was held on 22–23 July 2006. Contest was on second day. It was the first time when a band from

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, IR, took part in it.

Contest results

Winners: *

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- 40 hours of recording in Apollo Studio, and money (1800 zl) * S.D.M. - 25 hours of recording in Studio Rembrandt Radio Bialystok, and money (1200 zl) * Nevma - 1360 zl * Ludzi śviatla - 1000 zl * Vodar suśviet - electric guitar ''Other participants'':

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, Krok,

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, Termin X,

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Bans

In 2006, the organizers faced a ban on the concerts of “Adboryšča” (qualifying rounds for “Basovišča-2006”) in

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Criticism

In 2008 Rock-Princess Kasia Kamockaja as a columnist over at

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made such a takeaway on the festival, "„Basovišča“ was conceived not as a festival of Belarusian music in exile, but as a celebration of local

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

Belarusians." On the pages of

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, Tat'yana Zamirovskaya wrote in 2007 that the festival "is the only and oldest music competition in which young Belarusian rock bands can prove themselves and get a very significant prize." In the retrospect of 2010–2019 in 2019, Lesha Gorbash from

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called the festival "a

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for Belarusian rock music." Oleg Klimov, editor-in-chief of Muzykalnaya Gazeta, described the festival in 2003 as follows: “Basovišča is a Belarusian

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, only on the territory of Poland bordering Belarus. Therefore, no one knows about this fest, not only in the world, but even in the rest of Poland. In general, it is a cool festival of life.”

References

External links

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Basovišča — the official web-site
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