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The festival takes place during two July days in the Borak forest in
Gmina of Gródek,
Poland.[7] The important part of the festival is the music contest, in which young bands compete for prizes - usually money and rights to record their album for free.[8][9][10] Well-known stars of
Belarusian,
Ukrainian and Polish rock-scene usually perform there too.[11][12][13] From five to twelve thousand people come to the festival every year.[14]
History
2006
17th Basovišča was held on 22–23 July 2006. Contest was on second day. It was the first time when a band from
Lithuania,
IR, took part in it.
In 2006, the organizers faced a ban on the concerts of “Adboryšča” (qualifying rounds for “Basovišča-2006”) in
Minsk.[18]
Criticism
In 2008 Rock-Princess Kasia Kamockaja as a columnist over at
naviny.by made such a takeaway on the festival, "„Basovišča“ was conceived not as a festival of Belarusian music in exile, but as a celebration of local
Białystok Belarusians."[19]
On the pages of
BelGazeta, Tat'yana Zamirovskaya wrote in 2007 that the festival "is the only and oldest music competition in which young Belarusian rock bands can prove themselves and get a very significant prize."[20]
In the retrospect of 2010–2019 in 2019, Lesha Gorbash from
34mag called the festival "a
Mecca for
Belarusian rock music."[21] Oleg Klimov, editor-in-chief of
Muzykalnaya Gazeta, described the festival in 2003 as follows: “Basovišča is a Belarusian
Woodstock, only on the territory of Poland bordering Belarus. Therefore, no one knows about this fest, not only in the world, but even in the rest of Poland. In general, it is a cool festival of life.”[22]
^Канапкін, Ягор (4 June 2013).
"У конкурсе Басовішча сёлета спаборнічаюць 28 гуртоў" [28 bands are competing in this year's Basovišča competition] (in Belarusian). Generation.by.
Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
^Замировская, Татьяна (18 June 2007).
"Фактор "Евровидения"". BelGazeta (in Russian). 24 (594).
Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.