Mazepa-Fest

Mazepa-Fest (Ukrainian: «Мазепа-Фест») is an annual all-Ukrainian ethno-rock music and arts festival held in the city of Poltava, Ukraine. It takes place at Spivoche Pole (Singing Field) named after Marusia Churai in the Peremoha (Victory) Park. The festival was founded in 2003 by the Poltava Regional Association of the Prosvita Society, on the initiative of the society's chairman Mykola Kulchynskyi. The festival's chief director and presenter since its founding has been Serhii Arkhypchuk; musicologist Oleksandr Yevtushenko is also a member of the organising committee. The early programmes featured exclusively Ukrainian rock bands, while in subsequent years film screenings, choral music concerts and other events were added. The festival has been cited in the academic literature as one of the key annual rock festivals that emerged in Ukraine from the 1990s onward. During its peak years the festival drew several thousand young people to Spivoche Pole. The 2016 edition was considered the weakest in the festival's history, partly owing to an artistically outdated repertoire; plans to relocate the event to the town of Kolomak were subsequently discussed. After a five-year hiatus the festival returned on 25 September (year unspecified in source), held again in Poltava under its full title All-Ukrainian Patriotic Ethno-Rock Festival of Arts "Mazepa-Fest".