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The Shark Taronlari International Festival is the most popular and prestigious song competition and festival in Central Asia. The festival is organised in the famous Registan Square in legendary Samarkand once in two years. In 1997 the event initiated by President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov took place for the first time. Shark Taronalari will be held from 26th to 30th of August. The festival is a competition between performers of ethnic music representing countries from all over the world. In 2017 over 250 solo performers – singers and dancers – and music bands from 60 countries ar..

The Magic of Dance International Festival is traditionally organised in ancient Khiva, Khoresm province, Uzbekistan, in early September (in 2017 between 7 and 9 September). The festival features professional dance ensembles and amateur folk bands from Khorezm and other regions of Uzbekistan. At the event people can see the whole range of diverse traditional dances, performances from folk bands and ensembles, animation programmes, craftsmen’s exhibitions, puppet theatre shows, and demonstrations of traditional clothes, as well as an Uzbek cuisine festival, photographic exhibition The History of..

Silk and Spices is one of Uzbekistan's oldest festivals. The event is traditionally organised in the wonderful ancient Bukhara in May, every year since 2001. A spectacular and colourful parade carrying the viewer to the world of Central Asian legends organised near Labi-Khauz in the centre of Bukhara opens the festival. The event features hundreds of people in traditional clothes, actors, dancers, acrobats, wrestlers and musicians performing traditional ceremonial tunes, all marching through Bukhara’s historical centre. The festifal’s epicentre then moves to a large traditional bazaar, wher..