The festival was planned and carried out by
Alexander Demidov, Elena Karpova,
Vasily Terletsky, Ekaterina Kozmina,
Sergey Tihomirov, Leonid Gune,
Alexander Chekanov, Svetlana Skripnichenko

with considerable help of:
Nikolay Arutunov, Sergey Voronov,
Andrey Evdokimov, Alexander Kasparov,
Alexander Koptev, Genady Malechkin

and many others. THANKS TO ALL!

Well, I have prepared many "right" words about culture and spiritual development, and how important in that contexts blues or rhythm'n'blues is, about our strive to broaden Russian people view on this overseas phenomena, about our hard work to achieve these goals�

The truth is that we simply had time and drive to do that and we were less mercantile then now. So once upon a time, during a really hot summer day in 1991, my friends and I set in the my Moscow flat kitchen and were preoccupied by the pastime, well understood and even more loved by many Russians and Swedish. At some stage we come up with this idea and asked - why shouldn't we organise the best blues festival in Russia?

Well, delirium is it� but why not?

Now, I understand that we formed what is called "management team", capable of delivering all necessary components of the festival organisation with all its TV coverage and live multi-channel audio recording, with clear drive to success and I was really happy to head this wonderful team.

Of course, our sponsors were also main part of our success, and we were really lucky to find people who understand true meaning of word "to give", which was so rare then and even rarer today. Thousands of festival attendees and we are most and foremost grateful to them.

My main motivation was to create something 100% perfect (something unfortunately absolutely unimaginable today in the business world with its 20/80 rule). I just recalled all concerts I attended in Moscow and St-Petersburg, what was right and what went wrong in their organisation, what helped me to enjoy concerts and what was irritating there. Then we literally translated these findings into actions, polishing all details to absolutely maximise "customer satisfaction"� :-)) Generally speaking it was all about common sense, but "common sense" is a rare commodity in this world.

Mention should be made that some degree of enlightenment was achieved and the festival clearly played positive cultural role, we had extremely positive press. People would understand at last that blues is not just blue mood and blue mood music, blues is very energetic music with hard drive and powerful sound, blues is the routes of the rock'n'roll and rock'n'roll itself.

But the main point: I saw three thousand pairs of happy eyes, and that what matters to me.