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The Old Town Feast is coming...

The Old Town Feast is coming...

9/23/2004 5:20:45 AM

Each year, on the last Saturday of September, the open-air places and the houses of the Old Town of Plovdiv are hosting concerts of folk dancing and vocal groups, jazz-ballet formations, choirs, rock and jazz bands, vocal groups performing old city songs,chamber theatre performances and many more... The folklore ensemble Trakia is a participant in the for many years in a row... This year, they are going to perform the ritual called "Vintage Time" and the newly opened wine tasting section of the Hindlian House Museum will be hosting a wine tasting of selected Bulgarian wines.

The schedule of the Old Town Feast is as follows:

10.30 am - Kings Stables:
Children Choir Slavena
Plovdiv Puppet Theatre _ Tales of Tales
Children Disco

12.00 pm - The Zlatyu Boyadzhiev Art Gallery:
Puppet Show at the Draw-Well - Yanko Gadelev

1.00 pm  -  The Ethnographic Museum:
Old City Songs performance

3.00 pm  -  The Hindlian House Museum:
Folklore Ensemble Trakia - performing the "Vintage Time"  ritual
Wine tasting of selected Bulgarian wines.

4.00 pm  -  The Balabanov House Museum:
The music and poetic performance called "Double Reflection"
Piano pieces by Iv.Spassov - performed by Romeo Smilkov
Presentation of the Duplicate book of poetry - by the young poet Tanko Delchev

5.00 pm  -  Combo Little Band - conducted by Nikolay Geshev

6.00 pm  -  The Balabanov House Museum:
Are You Travellers Too?- comedy, by Simeon Alexiev
starring: Simeon Alexiev, Pepa Popzlatanova, Stoyan Surdanov

And many more surprises - koukeri dancing, lots of baloons, meat balls, popcorn and much, much more.... You are most welcome to join the celebrations!

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