The "Vitebsk Listapad-2009" author's song festival will bring together performers from Belarus and Russia

October 27, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The author's song festival "Vitebsky Listopad-2009" will bring together performers from Belarus and Russia, the "Vitebsk" Cultural Center informed a BELTA correspondent. The XVIII festival will be held on November 7-8. Applications for participation are accepted until October 30. Participants will be selected in a qualifying round. At the "Strings of the Soul" concert, the jury will name the winners in the nominations "Children's and Youth Creativity," "Author," "Performer," "Duet" (Ensemble), "Poet," select diploma winners of the festival among young emerging performers, as well as the audience award winner. The award ceremony for the participants will take place on November 8 at the "Melody of Autumn" gala concert. Along with the winners, renowned masters of the author's song genre will perform on this day: Alexander Bal, Olga Zalesskaya, Elena Kazantseva, Taras Yurkevich, Vladimir Tsiviki, Yuri Rykov. The organizers of the event are the Department of Culture, the Department for Youth Affairs and Defense Mobilization Work of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, and the People's Theater-Studio of Author's Song of the "Vitebsk" Cultural Center. -0-