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The XIII All-Russia Festival of "Play, the accordion!" Named After G. Zavolokin
The festival-contest is held since 1988 every two years. The festival-contest organizers are: the Ministry of culture of Russian Federation, State Russian House of people’s ats, the Department of culture and cultural heritage of Ivanovo region; Ivanovo regional coordination and methodical center of culture and creativity.
From 2006, the festival "Play, the accordion!" bears the name of Gennady Dmitrievich Zavolokin, the outstanding accordion player, People's Artist of Russia.
The extensive programme of the festival includes contest auditions, presentations of participants at concert sites of towns and villages of the region, gala concert of the laureates, folk festivity and a farewell bonfire.
The aim of the festival is to facilitate the development of national musical performances, to widely promote the art of playing the accordion and other instruments in traditional forms of folk music making.