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PETROZAVODSK, June 5. /Correspondent of ITAR-TASS Vladimir Zlobin/. The international festival of folk music Kantele - 2003 will open today in Petrozavodsk. Creative collectives from Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and also from Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Mariy-El, Tatarstan, Karelia, and some other Russian regions will take part in it.
They will perform melodies of Finno-Ugric peoples. Kantele will be the main musical instrument at these concerts. It is the ancient Karelian-Finnish stringed musical instrument played by plucking. Its close relatives are Estonian kannele, Latvian kokle, Lithuanian kankles and Russian 'wing-shaped' 'ringing' (zvonchatye) or 'lap' gusli /psaltery/, /Large Soviet Encyclopedia, vol.11, p.999/.
The festival will last for three days and will be devoted to the 300-th anniversary of Petrozavodskthat will be celebrated this year at the end of June. Except for concerts and the exhibition of musical instruments within the framework of the festival, the scientific and practical conference "XXIth is the folk music century" will be held.
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