MINSK, 19 July (BelTA) – Iconic bands will be perform at The Feast After the Battle event to be held as part of International Festival of Medieval Culture and Music Our Grunwald, BelTA learned from Alexander Rak, one of the inspirers and organizers of the festival.
The festival will be held in the museum complex in Dudutki on 21-22 July. Its main draw will be the reenactment of the battle of Grunwald which took place on 15 July 1410 between the forces of the Teutonic Knights and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland. The festival promises lots of fascinating and spectacular things: tournaments, fairs, master-classes.
“Every year we organize The Feast After the Battle, a festival inside the festival. This is a music open air event. Last year, one of the singers suggested involving the bands representing th eopposing sides. Thus we had the idea of turning the concert into a symbolic Grunwald on stage,” Alexander Rak said.
“This year we will have Wizard, a well known German group which is very popular in Europe, and Cruachan from Ireland, the world-famous folk metal team that tours a lot in Europe and other continents,” Alexander Rak noted.
The festival will also feature the Belarusian music bands Stary Olsa and Folclore, which successfully combines folk, medieval tunes and heavy metal. “There will also be the heavy metal band Aillion. Its lead singer Konstantin Dudarev is a member of one of the Belarusian reenactment clubs and one of the founders and leaders of the Steel Legacy armoring workshop in Belarus. His works are exhibited in Mir Castle and private collections in the United States and Australia. Some of Aillion songs are written by Dmitry Nestyuk, one of the founders of the military historical movement in Belarus,” Alexander Rak said.
Taking part in the festival will be two Russian music bands: Melnitsa and Epidemia.
The program of the festival will feature knights' fights on foot, tournaments of halberdiers, lances, archers and bugurts (mass joisting fights). A draw of the second festival day will be full-contact fights on horseback under the rules of the 15th century. The festival will also include medieval dance and crafts workshops, interactive platforms and the town of craftsmen.
Among the organizers are the Berserk Extreme Theater, Alexander Rak, and the museum of ancient crafts and technologies Dudutki.
