Fringe Music Festival Hot Date Ticket in St. Petersburg

A fringe music festival opened Thursday in St Petersburg and kicks into high gear Friday night. One of the groups performing at the 11^th Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival (or SKIF11) is the Canadian band NoMeansNo. The group is a trio that mixes jazz and punk into an eclectic sound.

Other groups that will be featured this weekend include the United States band Heavy Trash which plays a mixture of music in the punk-rockabilly-country vein. John Spencer will be featuring a new project and there will also be a performance by Speedball Baby Matt Verta-Ray. Many international groups will be featured also like the Czech group DVA, the Austrian tri Radian and the Finnish rapper Amoc.

The festival celebrates the memory of Sergei Kuryokhin, who was a member of the free-jazz group, the Anatoly Vapirov Trio back in the late 1970s. He went on to work with the Soviet underground band Akvarium and created his own group called Popular Mechanics. He died in 1996 at the age of 42 from a heart condition.

The festival is being held in Priboi for the third year in a row. The former cinema was lent to the Sergei Kuryokhin Foundation by the city of St Petersburg to be turned into a Center for Contemporary Arts. There are sure to be many beautiful single St. Petersburg women at this event!

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