Tbilisi Open Air returns after 2-year pandemic break
In their earlier announcement of the performances, Tbilisi Open Air team said the main stage would close with the performance of the Ukrainian band, which has seen its member Svyatoslav Vakarchuk involved in humanitarian support for those affected by the war in the country. Photo: Tbilisi Open Air/Facebook.
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The popular Tbilisi Open Air music festival opened on Friday for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit Georgia, with popular local and foreign performers taking to the stage over the weekend.
The festival is set to close on Sunday at the Lisi Wonderland area in the Tbilisi’s recreational hilltop spot, with headlining acts including Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy along with Cigarettes After Sex, Bedford Falls, Alt-J and Rhye across four stages.
Photo: Tbilisi Open Air/Facebook.
The main stage of the event has been hosting both local and foreign headlining artists and bands, while the electronic music and visual arts stage has involved performers working in the genres, and the remaining two stages being lent to psytrance musicians and vocal performers.
Photo: Tbilisi Open Air/Facebook.
In their earlier announcement of the performances, Tbilisi Open Air team said the main stage would close with the performance of the Ukrainian band, which has seen its member Svyatoslav Vakarchuk involved in humanitarian support for those affected by the war in the country.
In his comments Vakarchuk expressed gratitude to Georgian people for their support to Ukraine during the war, calling them “true friends, brothers and sisters”.
Photo: Tbilisi Open Air/Facebook.
Tbilisi Open Air editions had to be postponed and eventually cancelled both in 2020 and 2021 as organisers struggled to ensure safety amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The event hosted around 45,000 music enthusiasts with a line-up of locally and internationally sought-after artists in the years before the pandemic.