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Zakhid

ZAKHID
ЗАХІД
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Genre Rock, ethnic, electronic
Dates three days in
the middle of August
Location(s) Lviv oblast, Ukraine
Years active 2009–present
Founded by Yakiv Matviichuk
Website
zaxidfest.com

ZAKHID (stylized as ZAXID, due to cyrillic 'X/x' is transliterated as 'KH/kh' from Ukrainian) (Ukrainian: Захід) is an annual international music and art festival held in the middle of August near Lviv, Ukraine. ZAKHID was founded in 2009 as a festival of Ukrainian rock and ethno music. Later it has lost an attachment to some concrete music genre and was expanded by different foreign artists (among them such bands as Anti-Flag, Caliban, Clawfinger, Ektomorf, Everlast, Ill Niño, Kreator, Oomph!, Zdob şi Zdub and others).

Every year organizators conduct online-survey where anybody can propose and vote for artist. In this way the list of participants is formed. Also some artists are invited based on organizators' initiative and their names are hidden utill the tickets sales start.

The event name means in Ukrainian equivocally West (or Western, meaning western part of Ukraine) and Festival.

In 2009 and 2010 Zakhid was held in towns of Zvenyhorod and Stare Selo respectively (around 20 km from Lviv). Since 2011 the festival has been relocated to the village of Rodatychi (around 40 km from Lviv).

There is a list of some Zakhid participants:


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