Due to copyrights, the Danube Choir is replaced by “The Queen of Thorns”

In Burgas Diko Iliev’s music will play at midnight, because they have a contract with “Muzikautor”, in Plovdiv they play Thracian dances

The traditional Danube dance will be performed at midnight in the open air in both Sofia and Burgas, but in the old capital it will be replaced by the “Queen of the Tarn”. Urgent changes to New Years schedule hours before 2023 are due to unresolved copyrights.

One day before the new year, “Muzikautor” warned that the Danube Chorus is not folk music. Therefore, its implementation is subject to sanctions if the license fees are not paid and the control is carried out by the Ministry of Culture. The Danube Choir is copyright until 2056.

In Sofia, the choir, which has become a symbol of the New Year, will play on the square “Knyaz Alexander I”, but in the performance of the “Gorna Banya” ensemble, for which the musicians have established copyrights. The Metropolitan Municipality has signed an agreement with “Muzikautor” for the copyrights of all music that will be performed in the show “Stage Under the Stars”. A preliminary list of works has been presented, and after the concert, the final musical works performed will be performed and related rights will be adjusted, the municipality explained. (More information about the concert – see below.) The BBC will broadcast live from the square and TV rights payments will be made after the broadcast.

BNT will also broadcast the Danube Choir, like every year, having the rights, as well as a contract with “Muzikautor”.

Nova TV did not include the chorus in its program, although it paid for the rights.

The municipality of Burgas there are also no problems with the performance of the choir, because he has a contract with “Muzikautor” and regularly makes deductions when Diko Iliev’s work is played on solemn occasions, according to the administration. Deductions are also made for other concert appearances.

It’s inside Vratsa traditionally, the Danube Choir plays at midnight. The “Culture” department of the municipality was surprised that this time the heirs of Diko Iliev did not introduce him to him. “We have always concluded contracts with “Muzikautor”, when there are concerts of famous artists on city holidays or other occasions, sometimes the singers go on stage for free. But there was never any question of paying for the Danube Choir “, they say. Today they have yet to decide whether it will ring on New Year’s Eve, but they are more likely to pay the fine.

Municipal councilors will also think about it Blagoevgrad, who have learned from “24 hours” that they have no right to play the choir without a license.

The professional folklore ensemble “Iskra”, who will lead the big dance Tarnovo, generally does not play the work of Diko Iliev, but his arrangements. The Danube is traditionally played by the DJ at the party, but this year they will replace it with the melody “Tarnovska tsaritsa”, also in the rhythm of the real northern dance. This was announced by the municipality of Veliko Tarnovo.

Danube dance is Nordic and has never been performed Plovdiv. Thracian dances are performed there on New Year’s Eve, Plovdiv residents recall.

In the repertoire of the “Avligite” orchestra, which will play on New Year’s Eve in the square a Stara Zagora, basically there is only Thracian folk music. The musicians only played the Danube if someone from the audience expressly wanted to. According to the head of the “Culture” department, Diana Atanasova, this would not cause problems, since the municipality has a relationship with “Muzikautor” and, if necessary, would pay royalties for the one-time performance.

30 thousand are waiting the square of Sofia for “Scene Under the Stars”

Between 20 and 30 hidyali people are expected to gather at “Knyaz Alexander I” square in Sofia for the traditional New Year’s concert “Test under the stars”, organized by Sofia Municipality.

“After 2 years of the pandemic, this will probably be the largest and most visited cultural event. The organization lasted for several months. The Metropolitan Municipality made all the necessary efforts to make this happen. I am very happy that the ‘Usual Suspects’ together with young people who are just starting in the direction of music, may they take the stage,” Deputy Mayor Miroslav Boršos said yesterday.

Traffic will be stopped from 16:00 on December 31 on Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. between Rakovski and Dondukov, as well as on Alexander I St. between Saborna and Tsar Osvoboditel.

Those wishing to attend the event will be admitted through 6 points from 6-6pm. People who have overdosed on alcohol and are clearly in a state of severe intoxication, bring knives, knives, wooden clubs and other objects with which they can injure themselves and others will not be allowed in, the chief inspector warned Ivan Georgiev, head of the “Mass Events” sector at the SDVR.

180 policemen will guard the concert. There will be 6 medical teams. The Metropolitan Municipality’s “Emergency Assistance and Prevention” directorate will have 25 people around the stage in reflective coats, said its head, Krasimir Dimitrov. People from the municipality will be responsible for coordinating with doctors and the Ministry of the Interior.

According to an ordinance of the Sofia municipality, firecrackers and fireworks can only be used between 18:00 on 31 December and 2:00 on 1 January. (24 cups)