"It will be everywhere where there are travelers." The Grushinsky Festival will take place in an unusual format.
The Grushinsky Festival was proposed to be held online. Wrote in the Grushinka social media group. It will run from the first weekend of July until the end of September.
The organizers invited those interested in participating to go on a camping trip with their group, film a song around a campfire, and publish the video in a VK group. The creators of the most striking videos will then be invited to a gala concert in Samara.
"Grushinsky also experienced a five-year hiatus during the 80 Olympics. This year we'll show our unity, and next year we'll definitely come up with something!" said Anatoly Makarov, a member of the presidium of the Samara Regional Grushinsky Song Club.
However, some regular festival participants rejected the offer.
"We need a clearing, a mountain, an atmosphere, communication, and this is all some kind of parody," "Well, thanks a lot. 'Grusha' is following 'Invasion'—to nowhere.", - some tourists were upset.
The festival has been held since 1968 and is named in honor of Valeria Grushina — a student at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, a tourist, and a bard. He died on August 29, 1967, during a hiking trip. along the river Ude In Siberia, saving drowning children. In modern Russia, the festival was canceled in 2021 due to COVID-19; last year, it was cancelled due to authorities imposing impossible safety requirements on the organizers. Instead of the traditional Grushinsky the festival took place bard songs, organized by the Samara Youth Union.
The foundation is the organizer of "Pears" eliminated back in 2024 after the denunciation Alexander Khinshtein. He didn't like the fact that the organizers of the peace festival refused to allow the SVO members to perform on the main stage.
Photo: “Grushinka”, VK
