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MINSK, 14 November (BelTA) – An open-air jazz festival will be held in the Belarusian capital in May 2014. The music event will draw not only Minsk residents but also numerous tourists that are excepted to come to Belarus for the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, jazzman, organizer of Alfa JazzinMinsk 2013 festival Yevgeny Vladimirov told a press conference on 13 November, BelTA has learnt.

The open air will gather jazz lovers in the Gorky Park of Minsk. Over 20 jazz bands from various countries will give concerts on 23-25 May. “People will come to Minsk to attend this grand festival,” Yevgeny Vladimirov is confident. The project will be implemented with assistance of the Culture Ministry of Belarus.

Yevgeny Vladimirov hopes that the spring open-air will become a regular event the same as an international festival Alfa JazzinMinsk. This year the forum is held on 13-17 November. Performing in Minsk will be the sax legend, soloist of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, two-time Grammy Award winner Mark Gross, the Harlem jazz legend, the owner of the Bill’s Place Jazz-Club Bill Saxton, Best Jazz Pianist award holder Michelle Walker, Best Jazz Pianist and Best Jazz Composer (2010-2013) Aruan Ortiz, Best of Music award winning artist Kelvin Sholar Trio, virtuoso trumpeter Daniel Allen Oberto (Cuba), and many more. Partaking in the festival will be Belarusian musicians as well.

The 2^nd international festival Alfa JazzinMinsk 2013 is organized by Yevgeny Vladimirov’s Jazz Sound Club and JazzinMinsk producer center with assistance of the Culture Ministry of Belarus and the National Confederation of Entrepreneurship. Alfa Bank is the general partner of the festival.