Rock Existence Festival, 2002. Part 3

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

On video: opening credits, performances and comments from festival participants.

Participants: the band ‘Viy’ — ‘To Ye Ptakh’; the band “Haydamaky” — ‘Bila-Bila’; the band ‘Plach Yeremii’ — ‘Den Vidkhodyt’; the band ‘Tartak’ — “Mila”; the band ‘Vopli Vidoplyasova’ — ‘Karolina’

Comments: Head of the Department for Family and Youth Affairs Oleksandr Kulyk; music journalist Oleksandr Yevtushenko; actor Yevhen Nyshchuk; composer, producer Kyrylo Stetsenko.

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, featuring bands with their own style and original sound, rather than commercially oriented projects.