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Street Musicians

Chinese pilot Dzao Da Club (Moscow, Russia)

The first to take to the streets of Moscow were not actors, but musicians: some wanting to earn money, some to play for pleasure, then to earn money. In subway passages and on the Arbat one can hear the graduates of music schools and conservatories, super-professional jazz bands and amateur ones, lone guitarists, sole accordion players, etc. Vyacheslav Polunin has considered the changing reality of jour streets and corrected the programme of “Street Theater of the World”, realiz­ing that it would be unjust to exclude musicians in the Olympiad.

At the Hermitage Garden, musical groups from a Moscow club will be performing every day of the festival. Their manifest is:

flew a Curtiss P-40 airplane for many years. A winged cat was drawn on the fuselage. He crossed state lines, flying lower than the level of radar. Dzao Da was a person of the world. We have opened a club in honor of Dzao Da because we wish to be as free as he was.

Music of all styles and directions is played here, and musicians perform from all over the world. In November of 2000, we held a festival of street musicians. Everyone started on the street. For the festival of street theaters, you can see and hear street musicians who played at our festival in the Hermitage Garden as well as non-street musicians who play at our club, «Chinese Pilot Dzao Da.»

A real musician doesn’t care where he plays. The main thing is that the audience be a good one. Come to the Hermitage Garden, and you can fly lower and, if you’re lucky, higher than the radar.

June 18-20, 22-24, 26-28
Hermitage Garden