The 13th International Festival “Kyiv Summer Music Evenings” will start on May 30. It will run every wekend till July, 11th. The Festival is held on the summer stage of the Central Park of Culture and Rest.

Alyosha (real name Olena Kucher, born on May 14th, 1986 in Zaporizhzhya), Ukraine’s participant in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, successfully presented her song Sweet People in the second Semi-Final. She rocked the place with a powerful expressive covering a range of no less than four octaves vocal performance of her melancholic song, the key message of which is environmental protection.

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10 : RIGOLETTO (Opera in 3 acts, by G. Verdi, ends at 21:40, in Italian)
11 : LA BAYADERE (Ballet in 3 acts, by L. Minkus, ends at 21:30)
12 : Concert Mugam (works of Azerbaijani composers)

Address: 53/3, Velyka Vasyl’kivs’ka (former Chervonoarmiys’ka) Street, metro stop “Respublikans’kiy Stadion” (blue line)
13 : Mister X – Premiere (2 acts, by E.Kalman, in Ukrainian)
14 : Day: (starts at 11am and 14pm) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (musical fairy-tale in 1 act, in Ukrainian)

Address: 53/3, Velyka Vasyl’kivs’ka (former Chervonoarmiys’ka) Street, metro stop “Respublikans’kiy Stadion” (blue line)
13 : Mister X – Premiere (2 acts, by E.Kalman, in Ukrainian)
16 : Foyer Theatre: Operetta in 1 act, Dinner Party with …

Famous German band Guano Apes will have just one show in Ukraine and two in Russia.
This information is confirmed by the band’s management, a web-resource contrapromotion.com and the company JC-Sound, which organizes the tour.

International Jazz Festival «Jazz in Kiev 2009» will take place in Kyiv on 16, 17 and 18 October, 2009
The main concert stage will remain the same: International Center of Culture and Arts (Zhovtnevy Palats), where Grammy Award Winners Dave Holland and Al Jarreau peformed among others last year.

Don’t miss International music festival “Koktebel Jazz”, which will be held from 10th till 13th September, 2009 at the Black Sea coast in a small Crimean town Koktebel.
There will be shows on two stages: solo concerts will be on a small “Voloshynska” stage, and jazz and world-music bands will play on a “NU Jazz” stage, which was built last year.

On 5th and 6th September, 2009 «Prosvita» association organizes National Festival “Mazepa-Fest”, in memory of all Ukrainian cossacks, who died in Poltava Battle under hetman Ivan Mazepa leadership for freedom of Ukraine. Mazepa Fest will take place on Spivoche Pole Marusi Churai in Poltava.

The British legend of the world rave scene will perform in Kiev (Kyiv) Ukraine with their new album Invaders Must Die on the 7th October, 2009 in International Exhibition Center!
Dalskaya.com, one of the biggest promoters in post-Soviet states has signed a contract with The Prodigy for three concerts in Ukraine and Russia.