Folk music festival Art-Gene across Georgia to start on June 16

The annual folklore tour across Georgia named Art-Gene will start on June 16 in Akhmeta, in the Georgian region of Kakheti.

Afterwards on June 22,  a concert will be held in the region of Adjara that will be followed by a performance in the village of Gordi, in the region of Imereti on June 28.

The Frani musical band will hold a concert in Khoni, Imereti, to close the regional tour.

Photo from the festival in previous years. Photo: Art-Gene.

During the tour spectators will see exhibitions of different artworks, handicrafts as well as performance by the regional folklore ensembles.

The Tbilisi Ethnographic Museum will host the tour from 7 to 14 July.

Georgian composer Dato Evgenidze will open the Tbilisi events and will be followed by performance of other Georgian musical bands and singers.

The performance of Sukhishvili National Ballet. Photo: Art-Gene. 

Folk-rock and blues singer and composer Niaz Diasamidze will perform in Tbilisi Ethnographic Musem accompanied by his musical band 33a on July 13.

The large-scale musical event will be closed by Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet on July 14.

The festival, aimed at presentation of Georgian folklore dates back 16 years. More than 100 concerts have been conducted during the period attended by approximately 30-40 thousand people every year.