Zaxidfest

Zaxidfest
Genre	Rock, ethnic, indie, electronic
Dates	3 days in the middle of August
Location(s)	Lviv oblast, Ukraine
Years active	2009–present
Founders	Yakiv Matviichuk
Website	zaxidfest.com

Zaxidfest (Ukrainian: Західфест [ˌzɑxidˈfɛst]; previously known as Zaxid) is an annual international music and art festival held in the middle of August near Lviv, Ukraine. ZAKHID was founded in 2009 as a festival of Ukrainian rock and ethno music.^[1][2] Later it has lost an attachment to some concrete music genre and was expanded by different foreign artists (including Anti-Flag, Caliban, Clawfinger, Ektomorf, Everlast, Ill Niño, Kreator, Oomph!, Zdob şi Zdub and others).^[3]

Every year organizers conduct online-survey where anybody can propose and vote for artist. In this way the list of participants is formed. Also some artists are invited based on organizers' initiative and their names are hidden until the tickets sales start.^[4]

The festivals name "Zakhid" means in Ukrainian equivocally West (or Western, meaning western part of Ukraine) and Event.

In 2009 and 2010 Zakhid was held in towns of Zvenyhorod and Stare Selo^[5] respectively (around 20 km from Lviv). Since 2011 the festival has been relocated to the village of Rodatychi (around 40 km from Lviv).

There is a list of some Zakhid participants:

• Official website