Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi has hosted the Caucasian Music Awards Phoenix, which revealed the best rock/alternative musicians and bands of the year.
The festival revealed the six best Caucasian bands across six categories: Best Song, Best Video, Best Debut (Artist or Band), Best contribution to the development of Music, and Heroes the Phoenix.
A live concert and official awarding ceremony was held on April 15 at Tbilisi Music Hall.
Event organiser and Georgian rock and alternative music artist, Lado Burduli, highlighted that music has no boundaries and can be a tool to unite people in different locations.
Rock music is very open to the world, so it is much easier to communicate through the music with different people and nations. Music has the ability to connect and unite different people, and our award ceremony and festival serves this purpose, he said.
The Caucasus Music Awards launched four years ago. Since then the awards have featured online, which allows artists from all scopes of life the possibility to upload their musical creation. Burduli said this competition aimed to take full advantage of the effective use of the Internet as a resource and create a space where musicians working in the region can be united.
Already, a database of a wide variety of musical groups performing in the Caucasus region has been created on the event’s official website www.phoenix.org.ge.
The Caucasus Music Awards were supported by Georgia’s Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection.