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Every Person Knows There Has Always Been Jazz Festival in Ruse, Says Theodosii Spassov
Every Person Knows There Has Always Been Jazz Festival in Ruse, Says Theodosii Spassov
Kaval player Theodosii Spassov (left) and BTA Director General Kiril Valchev at the presentation of the new issue of BTA's LIK magazine in Ruse, November 14, 2025 (BTA Photo/Biser Todorov)

When one says Ruse, everyone immediately knows that there has always been a jazz festival here, and with international participation at that, kaval player Theodosii Spassov said here on Friday. He participated in the presentation of the new issue of BTA's LIK magazine, dedicated to jazz music and jazz festivals organized in the country.

Spassov is also the programme director of the Ruse Jazz Festival in 2025, which opens later on Friday. "I am happy to be in Ruse with my friends and kindred spirits who are in the programme of the Ruse Jazz Festival", he emphasized, thanking Ruse Municipality for the support and the creator of the festival, Petar "Parcheto" Petrov, who Spassov called the embodiment of jazz spirit in Ruse, a person who educated generations in jazz aesthetics.

"My first steps were in Plovdiv around Veselin Nikolov. They were companions with Petyo [Petar]. The first big jazz scene for me, for my development, was the stage of the Jazz Festival in Ruse," Spassov recalled and played melody on his kaval (a traditional Bulgarian type of flute) in memory of all jazz pioneers in Bulgaria.

/KK/

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