1 - 6 September 2015
  Primorsko - Kiten, Bulgaria

Director:  Kaloyan Nikolov

Location: Primorsko - Kiten (Wikipedia) - Primorsko (Bulgarian: Приморско) is a town and seaside resort in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Burgas Province. A well-known resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, it is located on a gore 52 km south of Burgas and has a beach strip of about 1 km². The average temperature is 27°C in July, often reaching 30-33°C and making Primorsko a favourable place for tourism. The rivers Ropotamo and Dyavolska reka run close to the town, and the Snake Island reserve is also nearby.

The festival has an excellent quality certificate, issued by EAFF

LIVE TV broadcast on the INTERNET of all concerts

Basic Information

The “Euro Folk” Black Sea Fest is held within the scope of “Euro Folk 2015” Musical Feasts - The world is television, which is in different European cities and countries during the whole year. Musical Feasts “Euro Folk 2015” comprise thirty five musical festivals.
Main event of the Musical Feasts “Euro Folk” is Festival №1 in Europe of the traditional folk arts – Stara Planina Fest “Balkan Folk”. Every year in the Festival participate from 9 000 to 15 000 musicians, singers and dancers.
Typical feature of Musical Feasts “Euro Folk” is, that all performances are recorded with professional audio and television technics and the best of them will be repeatedly broadcasted by 50 cable televisions in Bulgaria, the satelite and national televisions  "Travel TV",  "Bulgaria TV" and "Heros TV", as well as by the World Wide Internet television "EuroFolkTV" at tv.eurofolk.com. All this activities realize the main purpose of Musical Feasts “Euro Folk” – The world is television to make the traditional folk arts popular through the mass media.

Preliminary Program

The fest program includes competitions in the following categories:

  • folk songs;
  • folk dances;
  • folk ensembles;
  • folk customs;
  • popular and variety songs;
  • individual performers;
  • old-drawing songs and romances;
The jury will have the right to ask for partial performance and to interrupt it, if it exceeds the prescribed time limits. Participants, however, must be prepared, if requested, to perform the program in its entirety. The concerts of the “Euro Folk” Black Sea Fest are broadcasted live on the Internet Television „EuroFolkTV”. The program must not exceed 20 minutes.
During the Festival studio audio recordings and filming of professional video clips of the participants' program will be done free of charge of those performances awarded by the jury or against payment. It is recommendable that participants should consider 5 days stay in order to make audio recordings and video clips of high quality.
The made recordings will be broadcasted by 50 Bulgarian cable televisions, by satellite televisions with European holding as well as repeatedly on Internet television "TV Eurofolk".  
During their participation in the Fest, the group could be invited by the organizers to take part in the common events - official opening, official closing, parade, cocktail or others.
 
1 day – Arrival of ensemble after 14.00 h, accommodation. Dinner, overnight stay.
2 day – Breakfast, facultative tour with attendance of professional local guides. lunch, Leisure, Dinner, Performance, Overnight stay.
3 day – Breakfast, facultative tour with attendance of professional local guides. lunch, Leisure, Dinner, Performance, Overnight stay.
4 day – Breakfast, facultative tour with attendance of professional local guides. lunch, Leisure, Dinner, Performance, Overnight stay.
5 day – Breakfast, facultative tour with attendance of professional local guides. lunch, Leisure, Dinner, Performance. Receiving of certificates. overnight stay.
6 day – Breakfast, abandonment hotels at 12 h.
 
You can see  program for 2015 here:  PROGRAM 2015
You can see  program for 2014 here:  PROGRAM 2014
You can see  program for 2013 here:  PROGRAM 2013
 
facultative tours:
Sozopol - town of God Apolon.
Tzarevo - In the past, summer residence of the Byzantine emperors.
Begliktash - Thracian megalithic sanctuary, built in the 14th century BC, and operates up to 5 century AD
Boat trip in river Ropotamo - Nature Reserve - 5 Euro ticket
Boat trip in the sea - 10 Euro per person.
Leisure - Beach

Regulations

The “Euro Folk" Black Sea Fest is held for the fifth time within the scope of 5 performing days and evening concerts. Main task of the organizers is to ensure the creative groups an access to the stage, to gather them in a concourse programme aimed at defining the best ones and to popularize the award winners of the fest by broadcasting their art in the European TV channels as well as repeatedly on Internet television "EuroFolkTV".

  • The “Euro Folk” Black Sea Fest is organized by Euro Folk Academy, Municipality of Primorsko and other organizations within the scope of  Musical Feasts "Euro Folk"
  • To enter the participants must be accredited, which is realized under the following conditions:
  • Those who wish to take part in the Festival must fill-in and sign application forms, by which they formally agree with the conditions laid by these Regulations.
  • It is desirable that the participants should send at the above-mentioned address of Euro Folk Academy the latest album of the artist /band/ or demo record of not less than two songs. Further to this it is recommended that the application form should be accompanied with annotation and promo-materials such as photos. All sent materials are not subject of return.
  • In case the request for participation exceed the necessary entries for the concourse day, the jury makes a preliminary selection based on the given records and informs in written form all candidates for which day they qualify.