XIV National Folklore Competition "Danube Nightingales" Ruse 2022

Thursday, 07 July 2022

On July 9 and 10 (Saturday and Sunday) the 14th National Folklore Competition "Danube Nightingales" Ruse 2022 will be held in the Revenue Building. It is organized by the Municipal Children's Center for Culture and Art and is for performers of folk music - singers and instrumentalists . Over 400 participants will take part in the two competition days.

Participants are divided into individual performers, vocal and instrumental groups, folk choirs, orchestras and ensembles, and in age groups and in three categories - amateurs, classes with extended study of folklore and music schools.

The chairman of the professional jury is once again academician Prof. Milcho Vasilev from AMTII - Plovdiv, and members: Sashka Chenkova - teacher at the National School of Folklore "Filip Kutev" in the city of Kotel and at the University of Shumen "Bishop Konstantin Preslavski" and the beloved folk singer Rumyana Popova, who, in addition to judging the participants, will delight the audience with her performances during the gala concert of the competition.

Entry for all spectators is free.

The contest is included in the national calendar of the Ministry of Culture, and for the fifth consecutive year in the National Program for the Protection of Gifted Children. This makes it possible for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers from the third age group of the individual performers to be stimulated with a 12-month scholarship.

Competition program:

July 9 /Saturday/

12:30 p.m., Revenue building

Beginning of the first competition day

July 10 /Sunday/

10:00 a.m., Revenue Building

Start of the second competition day

6:00 p.m. – Gala-concert and awarding of the winners

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