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Apollonia Festival of Arts

Thursday Aug 29 - Saturday Sep 7    
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For 35 years Sozopol has been hosting the most valued, multifarious and colourful art festival in Bulgaria predominantly celebrating Bulgarian Art and Culture. Apollonia 2019 program features numerous exhibitions, concerts, films, theater performances and new books. Obviously not all the program is accessable for non-Bulgarian speakers, but visitors to the lovely seaside town can still enjoy a variety of live concerts and exhibitions.
Listed below are just some of the events accessible to non Bulgarian speakers.

Main events in the Amphitheatre (open air theatre at the entrance to the Old Town)
29th August 20:30 Ballet Arabesque will officially open the festival
30th August 21:00 Contemporary Music concert Stefan Valdobrev& The Usual Suspects Popular - The multitalented Bulgarian actor/ director/singer  with his band
31st August 21:00 Concert  'Astor Piazzolla 5/4 Tango' with Matthias Gonzales on the bandoneon.
1st September 21:00 B.T.R. Bulgarian rock band with their album 'Invisible Walls'
2nd September 21:00 60 years The Northern Folklore Ensemble Ivan Valev from Pleven (Concert performance)
3rd September
18:00 Dixieland music from the US Army band in Europe
21:00 FSB - One of Bulgaria's most highly regarded progressive rock bands founded in 1975
4th September 21:00 Vassil Petrov 'Favourite Songs'  - Bulgaria's Frank Sinatra
5th September 21:00 Big Band of the Bulgarian National Radio 'Electric Miles'
6th September 21:00 The Foundation Kiril Marichkov at 75  (Bulgaria's super group)
7th September 21:00 Hilda Kazasyan 'Listening to the Movies'

Music - Celebrating String instruments at Apollonia 2019 in the Archaelogical Museum Sozopol
29th August 19:00 Concert  The violinists Angel Stankov and Josif Radionov celebrating 45 years on stage
30th August 19:00 Vocal concert with the students from the Masterclass of Alexandrina Pendachanska
23:00 Premiere: Popular Bulgaria jazz pianist Jivko Petrov presents his Album TEN - his second solo project
31st August 19:00 Concert Lilia Petrova (violin) and Victoria Vasilenko (piano)
1st September 19:00 Guitar Recital Stanislav Hverchilkov
2nd September19:00 Concert Alexander Somov (violincello) Bogdana Popova(piano)
3rd September 19:00 Sofia Quarter and Stanislav Hverchilkov(guitar)
23:00 Duet with an unexpected ending - Militza Gladnishka and Vasil Spassov
4th September 19:00 Concert Atanas Krastev(violoncello) and Victoria Vasilenko (piano)
5th September 19:00 Concert Rumen Tsvetkov(viola) and Ludmil Angelov (piano)
23:00 Immeasurable! Beloslava and Zhivko Petro
6th September 19:00 La Belle epoque de la Harpe - Harp Quartet
7th September19:00 Concert: Consequences  -Veselin Veselinov-Eco (contrabass) and Milen Kukosharov (piano)

Art Exhibitions in the Art Gallery in the old town
1. Great Beauty - Genadi Gatev, Dimitar Yaranov, Ivan Kuranov, Krasimir Dobrev, Rosen Toshev and others
2. The Past without Heirs - Georgi Tenev
3. Posters from Art Festivals

Detailed online programm in Bulgarian only.

Date

Venue

Aug 29 2019 - Sep 7 2019

Price/Additional Info

Individual ticket prices 20 - 25 leva

Website

www.apollonia.bg www.facebook.com/ApolloniaFestival/
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