Ilsur Metshin and Igor Krutoy launched the “Good Wave” in the Kazan City Hall

The festival will take place this year in 9 cities of Russia.

(KZN.RU, June 5, Ksenia Shvetsova). Today, the Kazan City Hall approved the composition of the Board of Trustees of the All-Russian Festival Movement and signed a schedule for holding regional rounds of the festival “Good Wave”, organized under the auspices of the project “Good Kazan”. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, and Igor Krutoy, the general producer of the festival, People's Artist of Russia, attended the ceremony.

Ilsur Metshin welcomed the guests of the ceremony, among whom were the participants of last year's festival. He reminded that the project “Good Kazan”, within the framework of which the festival is held, is one of the 12 priorities of urban development aimed at creating a charity culture. “This project does not just create conditions for charitable assistance. But it allows to form a society whose principles are based on care and consideration, respect, complicity, love, and kindness towards each other”, said the Mayor and added that the festival “Good Kazan” played a good role in it. He also reminded that the first gala concert of the festival was held in November last year. “Creativity is the most guiding star that helps to believe in the best of thousands of people in our country, regardless of life circumstances”, said I. Metshin. “It is gratifying that our festival the “Good Wave” is a platform where children's dreams come true, because here they have a unique opportunity to enter one stage with the stars of the first magnitude and understand that everything is possible”.

The Mayor thanked Igor Krutoy and all those who supported the initiative to hold the festival in Kazan. He also expressed his special gratitude to the fund of presidential grants of the Russian Federation. Under the auspices of the “Good Kazan”, the festival “Good Wave” received 66 million rubles. It allowed to expand the geography of the festival, covering 9 cities of the country: Kazan, Kursk, Krasnodar, Sevastopol, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.

At the end of the speech, the Mayor thanked the teachers and the leaders of the creative teams, who with patience and care develop the talents of young musicians, singers and dancers. He wished all the participants of the festival success: “Let us together successes in this great and good endeavor. And let the dreams come true!”.

Igor Krutoy noted that the “Good Wave” is a unique event of its kind, and today there is no such festival in any region of the country. “Until now, there was no platform on which children with disabilities along with all other children did something together, supported each other, helped creatively. Kazan became the first city in which such a project appeared”, said I. Krutoy. He also noted the victory of Kazan in the competition for grants of the President of the Russian Federation. “The fact that 58 grants have been given to Tatarstan means that much attention is paid to the theme of charity”, believes the composer. “I am grateful to both the Mayor of Kazan and the President of the RT for their close attention to such projects”.

Speaking about the main goal of the festival, which is fulfilling the cherished desires of children, the composer recalled that last year many of the participants were able to make their dreams come true. One of the children dreamed of seeing Sofia Rotaru. And, for example, and visually impaired Jamil Khamitov, a young violinist dreamed of meeting with Yuri Bashmet.

Ilsur Metshin and Igor Krutoy launched a new “Good Wave” having signed the schedule of regional festival tours and having approved the composition of the Board of Trustees of the All-Russian Festival Movement.

The festival “Good Wave”, the presentation of which was held at the end of last year in Kazan, is a joint project of the Kazan City Hall and the Academy of Popular Music of Igor Krutoy. Last week it became known that it was among the winners of the contest for grants of the President of the Russian Federation

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The start of the "Good Wave" selection festival, 06/05/2018

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Ilsur Metshin and Igor Krutoy launched the “Good Wave”