Stichting Falkor I.C.Y.
P.O. Box 1649
9701 BP Groningen
Netherlands
info@falkor.org
www.falkor.o rg

‘Aerials rock night’ in Simplon:
Groningen, Odense, Tbilisi, Yerevan: local heroes come
together

Young rock musicians, film makers, DJ’s and VJ’s from
Armenia, Georgia and Denmark come together in
Netherlands and join a group of Dutch young
musicians. Together they will make new music, films
and perform at the end of their stay, 10 days later.

This concert will take place on Friday 24 September in
Simplon, Groningen.
(For details see )

>>From Georgia we will welcome in Groningen among others
Young Georgian Lolitaz, Bakur Burduli and Madi
Serebriakova, from Armenia The Kings’ Cross,
Alter Ego, Belka and Foreverchild. Denmark will be
represented among others by the reggae band Scientific
Feet. From Groningen members from Go!
Revolution Go!, JetSetReady, Believe is a Doubt and
Sjunya will join the project.

Rock, pop, trip hop, grunge, folk, reggae,
post-hardcore… all different music styles and
cultural backgrounds will be combined and presented at
one
colorful and surprising evening at Simplon.

The project in Groningen is organized by ‘Groningen
One World’, ‘Groverpop’ and Falkor I.C.Y.

-Groningen One World is experienced in organizing
international cultural youth exchanges, with young
artists from Eastern and Western Europe.
-Groverpop is the organisation promoting and
supporting the Groningen pop-scene. Groverpop offers
free concerts of Groningen bands under the name ‘Local
Heroes’.
-Falkor I.C.Y. is initiator of the Aerials project.
Falkor offers exchange projects for young enthusiastic
people in/with Caucasus.

The partner organizations abroad are ‘Caucasus Center
of Contemporary Art’ from Georgia, ‘Ynternet.org’ from
Armenia and ‘Odense Youth House’ (‘Ungdomshuset’ )
from Denmark.

After this project, the intention is to organize the
second part of the exchange project in Georgia in
2005. All participants will then be invited to play at
a festival in Tbilisi.

The project is funded by the EU Youth program and the
city authorities of Groningen.

‘Aerials’ is the name of a popular song by System of a
Down (famous Armenian/ American rock band): ‘Aerials,
in the sky, when you lose small mind, you free your
life.’

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For more information:
Falkor: Janita Top, +31 (0)6-54647084,
info@falkor.org,
Groverpop/Simplon: Patrick van Lint, +31 (0) 6
53199622,
patrick@groverpop.nl, ,