The finale to the 17th international arts festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will take place on the solemn closing ceremony on July 18. The organizers of the festival told BelTA that the ceremony will be held on the stage of the summer amphitheater. Participating in the concert will be Belarusian and Russian singers. Among them are Boris Moiseev, Sergei Lazarev, Vladimir Presnyakov and Natalia Podolskaya, “Samotsvety”, “Blestyashchie”, “Chelsea”, Yadviga Poplavskaya and Alexander Tikhanovich, art-group “Belarusy”. The directorate of the festival has prepared a surprise for the youth. They invited popular singers to take part in the concert “Dance till the morning comes” that will be held on July 19. Up 5.5 thousand artistes from 34 countries took part in the festival that was covered by 500 reporters from 14 countries. Participating in the festival for the first time were artistes from the Netherlands, Venezuela and South Africa. The 17th international arts festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk says good-bye to its spectators and the 18th international arts festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is ready to take up a new song.