Zaxidfest ( ; previously known as Zaxid, from ) is an annual international music and art festival held in the middle of August in

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, western Ukraine. Zaxid was founded in 2009 as a festival of Ukrainian rock and ethno music. Later it has lost an attachment to some concrete music genre and was expanded by different foreign artists (including

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and others). Every year organizers conduct online-survey where anybody can propose and vote for artist. In this way the list of participants is formed. Also some artists are invited based on organizers' initiative and their names are hidden until the tickets sales start.

Location

In 2009 and 2010 Zaxid was held in towns of

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and

Stare Selo Stare Selo ( Ukrainian: Старе Село; Polish: ''Stare Sioło''; literally, "old village") is a village in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine known as the site of a large castle, or rather fortress, of Princes Ostrogski. It belongs to Davydi ...

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). Since 2011 the festival has been relocated to the village of Rodatychi (around 40 km from Lviv).

Participants

There is a list of some Zaxid participants: *

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* Dymna Sumish *

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* Flunk *

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* Krykhitka Tsakhes *

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* Luk * Liapis Trubetskoi *

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* Perkalaba * Qarpa *

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* Tartak *

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* Therion * Tin Sontsia *

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* Vopli Vidopliasova * Brutto *

* Zhadan i Sobaky *

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References

External links

* {{Official website Culture in Lviv Rock festivals in Ukraine Summer in Ukraine 2009 establishments in Ukraine Music festivals established in 2009