For the first time, Sofia Music Enterprises is organising the festival Arena Muzika Sofia 2002.
The two-week festival, which starts on July 1, is aimed at developing Bulgaria’s rock culture in line with current European traditions.
It will be hosted at Academic Stadium, Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture, The Winter Palace and Sofia’s rock clubs.
Audiences will enjoy all styles of current techno music, trash, trap hop and jazz, by performers from elsewhere in the Balkans and Bulgarian bands and singers.
More than 40,000 people are expected at the event.
The programme features Joe Satriani on July 1, at the National Palace of Culture. The virtuoso guitar player was born in New York in 1956 and was inspired by Jimmie Hendrix. In 1987 his album, Surfing With the Alien, went platinum, turning him into a star in a fortnight.
Two years later, he was invited by Mick Jagger to take part in his tour in Australia and Japan. Since the mid 90s, Satriani has been a part of the unique guitar project G3.
Two days after Satriani, Halford and Slayer will perform at the stadium, and on July 7 H.I.M. will play at the Winter Palace.
The metal band Halford is headed by the former vocalist of Judas Priest, which inspired many of the present day monsters of metal such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, and Def Leppard.
Slayer’s trash metal songs from their latest album God Hates Us All will be played at the festival.
The Finnish band H.I.M. is the most famous representative of contemporary Gothic rock. The music they will perform in Sofia is a unique combination of dark wave and heavy metal, which vocalist Ville Valo calls ‘love metal’. In other words, Depeche Mode meets Dimmu Borgir in a David Lynch movie.
Stereo MC’s, a successful British hip hop group, will have a concert on July 10 at the Winter Palace.
The Manhattan Transfer will close the festival with a concert on July 13 at the National Palace of Culture.
Tickets for each of the concerts are already on sale at the box office of the National Palace of Culture (Tel 91 66 132).
Prices range from 15 to 40 leva.
The two-week festival, which starts on July 1, is aimed at developing Bulgaria’s rock culture in line with current European traditions.
It will be hosted at Academic Stadium, Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture, The Winter Palace and Sofia’s rock clubs.
Audiences will enjoy all styles of current techno music, trash, trap hop and jazz, by performers from elsewhere in the Balkans and Bulgarian bands and singers.
More than 40,000 people are expected at the event.
The programme features Joe Satriani on July 1, at the National Palace of Culture. The virtuoso guitar player was born in New York in 1956 and was inspired by Jimmie Hendrix. In 1987 his album, Surfing With the Alien, went platinum, turning him into a star in a fortnight.
Two years later, he was invited by Mick Jagger to take part in his tour in Australia and Japan. Since the mid 90s, Satriani has been a part of the unique guitar project G3.
Two days after Satriani, Halford and Slayer will perform at the stadium, and on July 7 H.I.M. will play at the Winter Palace.
The metal band Halford is headed by the former vocalist of Judas Priest, which inspired many of the present day monsters of metal such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, and Def Leppard.
Slayer’s trash metal songs from their latest album God Hates Us All will be played at the festival.
The Finnish band H.I.M. is the most famous representative of contemporary Gothic rock. The music they will perform in Sofia is a unique combination of dark wave and heavy metal, which vocalist Ville Valo calls ‘love metal’. In other words, Depeche Mode meets Dimmu Borgir in a David Lynch movie.
Stereo MC’s, a successful British hip hop group, will have a concert on July 10 at the Winter Palace.
The Manhattan Transfer will close the festival with a concert on July 13 at the National Palace of Culture.
Tickets for each of the concerts are already on sale at the box office of the National Palace of Culture (Tel 91 66 132).
Prices range from 15 to 40 leva.
