A whole study could be written about rock festivals in small towns. But we can say very briefly: it is always not just an event, but a big event for any town or village. For locals and visitors, for spectators and participants, for outside observers, and, no matter how pathetic it may sound, it is an event for future generations. After all, the consequences of any speech can be the most unpredictable. The same happened with the White Night Blues - they did not escape the magic of complex space-time connections.

    Who invited the WNB to Slutsk can't be restored now. There is an assumption that this could happen through Fan (Kirill Smyshlyaev, a former resident of Slutsk, part-time leader of the Slutsk-Mogilev group Avangard-School). In this case, the chain of investigation may lead to his brother - also a musician, and also the leader of the group, who also studied in Mogilev. His group was called "Everything and Nothing", and she definitely performed at the Slutsk rock fest in 2000. Further investigation comes to a standstill.

But what happened happened: White Night Blues in Slutsk appeared in its “original” form, that is, in the line-up in which it debuted six months ago at the Last Echelon festival - with Alexei Cherny on bass and Sergey Raschukov on drums (Yuri Nesterenko , as the leader of the group, was automatically attached).    

     It seems to be nothing remarkable, the usual story is a long and monotonous road from the house to the festival for some time stage (at the same time, selective half-listening of creative delights from fellow participants), then the performance itself, post-concert reflections, quick preparations and the same tedious road back.

     But somewhere, in the middle of this chain of events - after the performance, between the reeling of the cables, the sheathing of the guitars for someone then a cassette with the group’s recordings was left as a gift (and after five minutes doubts already come: “Why did he give it? He hasn’t needed these records for a hundred years ...”). And it is precisely here that another story is born, developing, as it were, in parallel, but at the same time in strict relationship with the main plot, with the history of the group, which goes on as usual and does not suspect anything about the causal trick.

     And the girl at that time was only about eight years old. And at the festival itself, she was not, and could not be at that age. But the cassette was already lying under a layer of dust on someone's shelf. Then, perhaps, she went from hand to hand in an absolutely Brownian movement of information exchange between unidentified young people. And six years later, when the girl turned into a pretty high school student, the cassette, among other things, ended up in the backpack of her friend, with whom she seemed to have a good relationship.

     The song from that cassette was called “The story with the elevator”. Words and music were very interested in the high school student, moreover, they magically intrigued and carried away - so that she began to think about the author. And a few years later, when the girl was already a senior student at one of the capital's humanitarian universities, a student at the music department (vocal department), her classmate from the sound engineering department accidentally made a reservation that he was now recording several songs by Yuri Nesterenko at the studio. Luda (that was the name of our heroine) was very interested in this fact and asked a classmate to find out if this was Yuri, who once wrote a song about an elevator, and then also brought it to Slutsk?  

    Everything coincided and nothing was in vain, playing on the dualistic name of the group in the system of binary relations of the Slutsk-Mogilev brother to the Mogilev-Slutsk Fan, we come to the philosophical concept of dialectics being. In a complex system of many complex relationships, Luda got married and began to bear the surname Dudenus. It was with this surname that she soon became the vocalist of the White Night Blues group and took part in a considerable number of concerts both at home and abroad. On top of that, in order to pass the state exams at the end of the university, graduates had to prepare one work of foreign and domestic authors each. So Lyudmila performed, just, "Blues of the White Night" by a domestic author, the same Yuri Nesterenko.

     But it all started with an innocent walk to the Slutsk festival. There were no photographs of White Night Blues from him, but there was a poster signed as a keepsake by Smyshlyaev Jr. and his friends-colleagues in the All and Nothing group. Where the issue of the Slutsk newspaper Kur'er could come from in the WNB archive remains an unsolved mystery. But the main thing is that the most interesting festival report has been preserved in it, where the whole sentence (in the equivalent, almost half a paragraph!)

     It is also worth noting that in the next ten years there were no more rock festivals in Slutsk.