31st of July: Last day of the Festival and the Trash Rash performance live on stage!

 

Today is the day that we were so much waiting for! At last the Trash Rash project is on the final stage: the performance!! The last rehearsal is taking place on the Sun Flower Stage and the participants seem to be very excited. Finally their hard work will be shown in public.  

All participants have taken their positions on stage and the workshop leaders give the final signal to begin. It is a moment where we see all the efforts and the patience of these young people from Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Italy and Turkey. The atmosphere is warm and the audience welcomes the Trash Rash project with a great applause. The participants look confident and comfortable on stage and they seem to enjoy a lot this moment.

Merve, the Turkish girl with her beautiful voice is singing a Turkish song accompanied with some percussion and stringed instruments. Merve's eyes are shining and her melodies offer us a great pleasure to our ears.  

 After the song, a jam session follows but the audience wants more, "it can't be finishing so early", so now the workshop leaders Robert and Dobrin give the rhythm to the orchestra! It's time for improvisation and apparently it seems that they play pretty well. They are quite relaxed and the audience shows its satisfaction by giving a warm clap and shouts of excitement. It is a great relief to see this scene and to feel that after all these days something good came out of this project.                                                                 
   

After the Trash Rash concert, more bands play until 22.30 which is the end of the Sun Flower Festival but not of the Trash Rash project..! The Backstage party is to start around 23.00 without time limit!!

Before the party, a fire and juggling  performance is being carried out by several young people from Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Spain and the show is quite spectacular.

Fire fans - juggling
Staff & Doublestaff
Club juggling
Levi stick
Staff twirling
Fire orb
Hula Hoop

They are moving and dancing whilst playing with fire and at the same time drums give them the tempo. These drums are our Trash Rash drums!












At the end of the fire show a surprise by Stefan Kiehne, the chairman of the board makes us all stare at the sky...fireworks!!! They color the sky with beautiful shapes and forms and give the signal to start the party!







Balkan sounds and dance music incite everybody to dance until dawn. We are all exhausted, dirty, full of mud and wet from the rain but we don't give up and are still fighting to live this moment until the end!!