Chicken Festival?

While Orest over at Ukrainian Musical Matters has done a great summary of the different music festivals going on in Ukraine this summer I can't see how he forgot the Chicken Festival being held at the National Exposition Center of Ukraine on June 28!

Actually, today was the first time I heard of such a festival, or should I say, saw an advertisement for it as I descended down into the bowels of the Kyiv Metro this morning. As a form of BTL marketing, one of Ukraine's largest chicken producers Nasha Ryabab holding about 45% of the market and under the control of Ihor Kolomoysky's Pryvat group have decide to enlist V.V., Druha Rika, Tartak, Gaytana and Jankoi Brothers to pump their product. While I can't remember the exact date of the festival... I really don't think it will be as well attended as the many different festivals Orest has described.

Druha Rika - New Album

The band Druha Rika has been around the music scene in Ukraine since 1996, and symbolically they are putting out a tenth anniversary album called Dennich, a play on words for DayNight. All but the title track, Dennich, of the 13 track album is new, other material was selected material from their previous albums which include Ya Ye [2000], Dva [2003] and Rekordy [2005]. Not sure which label it is out on but I would suspect, that they are still signed with Lavina Music.

While I haven't heard the entire album, I did find a copy of the title track on the Nashe Radio website new song section, with a strict warning that if you download the track and keep a copy of it after you have become familiar with it, you will be infringing on the author's copyright and you will be accountable before any current legislation.