The festival at that time was held annually as part of the Slavonic Bazaar. “Rock apounachy” was a kind of “festival within a festival”, an alternative venue in contrast to other phonogram and pop scenes in the city. It was rock bands that gathered here - playing “live” in a wide variety of styles and directions - mainly from Belarus, but there were also quite a few foreign bands.

      After two decades Bulgaria. In Vitebsk, the guys played something like No Doubt with a black-haired  vocalist in front of a microphone (by the way, quite unexpectedly, “Sprint” once appeared at the “Make Blues, Not War” festival in Kiev with a strong blues program; at this festival, by the way, the headliner was ex-guitarist of the Bluesbreakers and Rolling Stones Mick Taylor).

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_cc781905-5CDE-3194-BB3B3B-136BAD58D_ _Ccc781905-5CDE-3194-BB3B3B-136BAD58D_ _CC781905-5CDE-3194-BB36BAD5CF58D_v in the beginning of 2000s, scene, on which the ROK was held “ in the center of the city, in a picturesque place on the banks of the Dvina. All organizational issues (sound, light, transport, invitation of musicians, etc.) were dealt with by the members of the Vitebsk group "Vokzal", in particular their leader, vocalist and guitarist Zhenya Kovalevsky. They also invited every year the traditional for Vitebsk and Polotsk host of all significant rock events, the famous Anisa.

The Night Blues were "in the right place at the right time". For their second outdoor performance (after Brest), the musicians arrived by agreement with Kovalevsky. Immediately before the concert, we met Sergey Anischenko (Anisa), which became a guarantee for the subsequent performances of the White Night Blues at the legendary Rock-Cola festival, the main organizer of which was Anisa, and acquaintance with this wonderful person grew into a long-term friendship.  

     The group arrived in Vitebsk with the following line-up: drummer Stepan Nesterny, vocalist Alexey Nesterny and bassist Alexey Nesterny, vocalist There are very few photographs from the Vitebsk performance, most of them were taken with a Zenit film camera, which Nesterenko accidentally   took with him.