Ukrainian musicians say that otherwise they will refuse to perform.
The Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, which won this year at Eurovision, appealed to the organizers of the Sea Dance Festival in Montenegro to cancel the performance of Russian DJ Nina Kravitz. If this is not done, the musicians promise not to participate in the event. The corresponding statement appeared in the “Stories” of the group on Instagram.
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Sea Dance Festival is a festival that will take place from August 26 to 28 in Montenegro, it is one of the projects of the organizers of the Serbian EXIT festival. On August 6, the festival published a poster with a breakdown by day. It follows that on August 28, Kalush Orchestra should perform together with Nina Kravitz.
On August 7, “Stories” appeared on the Ukrainian band's Instagram account, in which Oleg Psyuk states that Kalush Orchestra has already been asked to organize to cancel Kravitz's performance and also urged their fans to do the same. If Kravitz remains on the Sea Dance Festival bill, Kalush Orchestra promises to cancel their performance.
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Nina Kravitz is a Russian producer, DJ and singer who was accused of sympathizing with the aggressor president Vladimir Putin. For example, at the Coachella festival shortly after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Kravitz performed with a cardboard figure of the Russian autocrat.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the DJ did not directly oppose the aggression. On February 26, she published a video in which she wrote the word “Peace” on a piece of paper. And on May 17, Kravitz wrote a post in which she stated that she “does not understand the politics and processes that she creates on social media” and does not “consider it necessary to discuss what is happening on social media, because it can increase the degree of hatred and not promotes understanding”.
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At the end of May, Nina Kravitz was excluded from the lineups of three festivals: The Crave in the Netherlands, Movement Music Festival in the USA and PollerWiesen in Germany.
