NEW RUSSIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AMERICA - COMING IN JUME!

[Marina Aptekman]

*DEAR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS, *

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*Welcome to the Multilingual, Poly-stylistic and Intercultural Festival Jet*
*ЛАГ-2010 !*

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*JetЛАГ / JetLAG is an annual open-air music festival that highlights
traditional and contemporary trends in music, poetry and performance
art. *JetЛАГ
discovers, establishes and maintains links between groups of different
cultures, generations and tastes. The festival contextualizes and explores
genres, styles and projects that embody such links, such as Russian
guitar-poetry and folk song, rock, klezmer, gypsy music, trance, rap and
freestyle poetry. Each year, these different styles will be united by a
certain historically relevant common theme, such as "The ‘60s", French
chanson, German cabaret, Yiddish theater, Light Music Orchestras, etc.JetЛАГ
was founded in 2009 as a Russian-American Festival; however it as grown into
a more diverse event, where different groups are bonding at the initiative
of one community and sharing views, tastes and relevant information. The
name JetЛАГ is originally an English-Russian pun (JetLAG, where "lag" means
"camp," because establishing a common campground for both artists and the
audience is traditional for Russian rock and folk festivals).

JetЛАГ is a great source for those engaged in cultural studies, social
anthropology, history, politics, contemporary art and performance studies,
ethnomusicology, and Russian, Slavic & East European studies. *JetЛАГ is
designed for artists, musicians, music enthusiasts, and significantly,
students*; we encourage professors of Russian language and/or the arts to
consult us about bringing groups of students to the festival as part of
their summer school program's curricula. We have established strong contacts
with a number of universities in the area (including NYU, Dartmouth College,
University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, etc.) and plan in the
long run to create a large network project JetLAG.edu, which would include
various kinds of info-partnership and help promote further bonding between
JetLAG and the US academic community. *The festival's headliners and guest
list include internationally known musicians from Russia as well as
well-known American musicians.* (For example, Frank London, the
world-renowned trumpeter, composer and bandleader ['Klezmatics',
'Brotherhood of Grass'], and Leonid Fëdorov, of the legendary Russian rock
band ‘Auktsion’ were guests of JetЛАГ-2009.) At the culmination of the
festival, the headliners meet local musicians and convene a jam-session on
stage.

*Jet**ЛАГ-2010 will be dedicated to French chanson and its influences on
Russian folk as well as its role in European and world culture.* The
headliners are well-known musicians who tend to re-imagine and re-invent
this heritage in their performances. JetЛАГ guests are known for their
ability to take active part in jam-sessions, and to generously share their
experience with beginners. In addition to the main concert, several stages
will run concurrent programs throughout all three days of the festival.
These stages represent the theme of the festival in different styles and
from different angles. Each stage will be supervised by a musician regarded
as a key figure in a certain musical sphere. These musicians generate their
own programs, invite guests and essentially create a mini-festival within
the greater JetЛАГ framework.
*We believe that JetLAG attendees will experience one of the most vibrant
music festivals in the Northeast, and one of the most important displays of
Russian-American culture in the world. *

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*The festival will proceed in Pennsylvania last since 17 June through 19
June. The entry fee is $60 general, $40 for juniors. **Groups of more than
10 students of teachers interested in attending Jet**ЛАГ-2010 are eligible
for discounts. Please contact jetlagfest at gmail.com for your own discount
code to be created. *

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*For more info, please click http://www.jetlag2010.com*

*Welcome to JETЛАГ-2010! *

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*JetLAG cultural advisers *

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*Pavel Lion*, a.k.a. “Psoy”
Poet, composer, singer, journalist, artist and klezmer musician
Professor of Cultural Studies

pavel.lion at gmail.com



*J. Martin Daughtry*, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Music
New York University

jmd19 at nyu.edu

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