Allegoriya

Allegoriya (Allegoriya, the Russian for allegory) - is a Russian folk rock band. It was founded in 2003. "Allegoriya" has been organised by people who interested history and a life of the ancient Slavs, taking before direct part in the organisation of set of role-playing games of the historical modelling devoted to a pre-Christian epoch, in a consequence of that MusicAL style of collective and a direction of its further creative activity have been chosen. In due course the group stylistics have changed in an alloy of ethnic music of different cultures and modern styles.

Lineup

  • Yegor Kosolapov (manager) - vocal, rhythm guitar, wind INSTRUMENTS (harmonica, kaluka).
  • Igor (Garret) Bragin (art director) - vocal, percussion (congo, bongo, djembe, tambourine, shaker), wind instruments (block-flute, didjeridoo, kaluka, hobrah, jaleika).
  • Alexey (Lemer) Haritonov - wind instruments (clarinet, block-flute, hobrah, kaluka).
  • Alexey Bragin - solo-guitar.

Awards

  • February 2003 - Winners of the first degree in a nomination "Vocal-instrument ensemble - Civil" at patriotic festival "Young Russia" (Krasnoyarsk). Winners in a nomination "Ensemble" of festival "Sayany-2003" (Sayanogorsk).
  • August 2004 - Representatives of delegation from Krasnoyarsk region at V International festival of youth and students of the countries of Asian-Pacific region (Uhlan-Ude).
  • March 2006 - Organizers of festival "Live music" (Minusinsk).
  • May 2006 - Winners of regional rock festival "Live Sound" (Krasnoyarsk).
  • May 2007 - Winners in a nomination "the Best ethno-rock group" at First Inter-regional festival of acoustic music "Unplugged-2007" (Abakan).
  • July 2007 - Winners of the award "Zolotaya Iriya" in a nomination "Etno-experiment" of the International festival of ethnic music "Sayan ring-2007" (Shushensky).

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