Ciuc Summer Fest replaces Baa‚¬a„¢Estfest this summer

B’Estfest, the most popular summer festival in the Romanian calendar, will take a year off. In its stead comes the Ciuc Summer Fest, a smaller music event, organizers Emag!c Entertainment have announced. Three acts have already been confirmed for the event, which will take place between July 16 and 18 at the Iolanda Balas Soter Stadium. Tickets for each day of the Ciuc Summer Fest can be bought online from the site www.myticket.ro and from Diverta stores as of next week, priced at RON 90, RON 160 and RON 220.

Otilia Haraga

Faithless was the first band to sign up to perform at the festival, on July 16. This is not the first time the outfit – Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo Armstrong – will play Romania: their most famous hits, such as Insomnia, God is a DJ, Bombs and We Come 1, have enchanted local crowds before. Faithless’s style has spanned such genres such as electro, dance, trance, hip-hop, trip-hop and spoken word, and the band cannot be classified as belonging to a particular music tradition. The outfit made its debut in 1995 with the song Salva Mea, which soared to the top of the charts all over the world. Its fifth studio album To All New Arrivals sealed Faithless’s status as one of the most successful electro-dance projects in the world. The band is now preparing for the launch of a new studio album, Calling All the Faithful, of which the first single, Sun to Me, has already been released.

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The latest confirmation is Pink Martini, a top jazz-lounge and fusion outfit, which will return to Bucharest on July 17. Pink Martini has played two well received gigs in Romania already. The project was conceived in Oregon in 1994 spearheaded by Thomas Lauderdale. Its compositions are an eclectic mix of latino, lounge, classic and jazz, leading critics to coin the group’s output as vintage music. The first album, Sympathique, was released in 1997 and sold 1.3 million copies all over the world. It was followed by three other studio efforts, Hang on Little Tomato, released in 2004, 2007’s Hey Eugene!, and the most recent album Splendor in the Grass. The band is well known for hits such as Amado Mio, Que Sera Sera, La Soledad, Donde Estas, Yolanda, Una Notte a Napoli, Tempo Perdido and Simpatique (Je ne veux pas travailler).

Gary Moore, the stage name of Robert William Moore, started his music career in the 1960s, since when he has performed with artists such as B.B. King, Greg Lake and the blues-rock band Skid Row. Moore got the bug when he got his first acoustic guitar at the age of eight, drawing inspiration from artists such as Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

Later, the influence of Jimi Hendrix and Bluesbreakers would steer his musical style towards blues-rock, which has dominated his career. Moore’s output combines rock, jazz, blues and country, and mixes traditional riffs from electric blues and hard rock with heavy metal. He is known for interpretation of hits such as Parisienne Walkways, Out in the Fields, Empty Rooms, Over the Hills and Far Away, Wild Frontier, Friday on My Mind, After the War, Still Got the Blues (For You), Cold Day in Hell and Story of the Blues.