Rock Existence Festival, 2002. Part 1

2002, Kyiv. All-Ukrainian rock music festival ‘Rock Existence’. Part one.

The video features opening credits, performances, and comments from festival participants.

Participants: the band ‘Hutsul Calypso’ — ‘Hutsul Dracula’; the band ‘Black September’ — ‘Look’; the band “DAT” — ‘White Woman’; the band ‘Jack O'Lenter’ — ‘Mountains’; Lesya Herasymchuk and Korolivski Zaytsi — ‘Lusknichok’; the band Mandry — ‘Hylka’.

Comments: Head of the Department for Family and Youth Affairs Oleksandr Kulyk; poet and translator Yurii Pokalchuk; chief producer of the festival Taras Hrymalyuk; general director of the Komora joint venture Oleg Repetskyi; music journalist Oleksandr Yevtushenko.

Reference: Rock Existence was a nationwide rock music festival held in Kyiv from the mid-1990s to 2005. It became an important platform for the development of Ukrainian alternative rock, presenting bands with their own style and original sound, rather than commercially oriented projects.