(MENAFN- AzerNews)
On the third day of the successfully continuing Shaki "Silk
Road" XIII International music Festival, on July 7, at noon, the
audience was presented with a concert of artists from TURKSOY
countries and the Turkish "Inegöl" Folk Dance Group,
Azernews reports.
Officials of the organizing bodies of the festival, guests of
the event, as well as music lovers, took part in the concert held
at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Sheki.
At the beginning of the concert, information was given about the
activities of the dance group. It was reported that the folk dance
group established in Inegol in 2021 successfully represents Turkey
at events and festivals held in the country and abroad. The
repertoire of the group, which has successfully staged the dances
of Inegol, Bursa, Trabzon, Thrace, Izmir, Artvin, and 14 other
regions, is very wide. The team that successfully represented
Turkey at the "Lezgi" International Folk Games Festival, which was
held in Khiva, Uzbekistan in April 2024 and was attended by 30
countries, took the third place and proudly waved the flag of its
country.
It has been brought to attention that a collective of 40 people
participates in the Shaki festival with 12 dancers. The artistic
director of the collective is Atilla Mert, his adviser is Fatih
Şen.
During the concert, interesting, playful, cheerful Roman, horon
and halay dances were presented by the dance group, as well as
Kazakh, Turkish, and Azerbaijani songs performed by the People's
Artist of Kazakhstan, winner of international festivals, Bakhtiyar
Taylakbayev, and the Cultural Worker of that country, Lara Rysbay,
were welcomed by the audience.
At the end of the concert, the artistic director of the
festival, chairman of the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan,
professor, correspondent member of ANAS, People's Artist Firangiz
Alizade and the representative of Azerbaijan in the TURKSOY
organization Elchin Gafarli spoke and expressed their gratitude to
the collective and artists for the colorful concert program.
In the end, on behalf of the organizers, the "Inegöl" Folk Dance
group and the artists were presented with the symbolic symbol of
the festival, as well as commemorative gifts of TURKSOY.
On the evening of July 7, the closing ceremony of the 13th Sheki
"Silk Road" International Music Festival will be held in the Summer
Theater of the "Marxal" complex.
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