Armenia’s Urvakan Festival reveals first names for 2020

Emil Lazarian 2020
Resident Advisor
Feb 7 2020
 
 
Armenia's Urvakan Festival reveals first names for 2020
 
Mark Smith
 
Madteo, MSYLMA and Shackleton will feature at the May festival.

Urvakan Festival has revealed its first wave of acts for 2020.

Running May 5th to 9th, the Armenian event's lineup is partly shaped by guests curators, including Rabih Beaini, Club Chai, Gost Zvuk, Brandon Rosenbluth, Klammklang, Synthposium and TKANI.

The bill features a host of experimental artists such as Pierre Bastien, Ellen Arkbro, Ghédalia Tazartès and Rhys Chatham, while electronic acts are represented by the likes of Madteo, MSYLMA, The Bug, Shackleton's Tunes Of Negation project, Buttechno, 8ULENTINA and Slikback. More acts are still TBA.

See the lineup so far on the RA event page.

  • May 05  Urvakan Festival 2020, TBA – Armenia, Armenia
Festival: Urvakan
 

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS