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The Public Council and the Direction of the International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower” are pleased to inform you that the next International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower” will take place in Red Square of Moscow from 1 to 8 September 2013. The traditional participants of the Festival are the units of the State Honour Guards and the leading Russian and foreign military music bands. In accordance with the tradition the opening of the Festival in 2013 will be held within the framework of the Days of the City of Moscow. Daily Festival audience only in Red Square exceeds 7 000 people, and the whole Festival audience is expected to be over 56 000 people (over 100 million people if Internet and TV viewers are taken into account).

Festival events and shows traditionally receive extensive Russian and foreign media coverage. In 2012 around 30 news agencies, over 30 TV-channels, more than 60 print media and 12 radio stations were accredited in the Festival press center. The central TV channels of France, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Hungary, China, Korea, Kazakhstan, New Zealand and Australia paid attention to the Festival events, and such TV-channels as Euro News, Associated Press, Russia Today, Mir showed the programs dedicated to the Festival almost all over the world. In some foreign countries the Festival shows were fully transmitted on TV.

According to Russian and foreign mass media, guests, participants and spectators the Festival is one of the most impressive and considerable events of the cultural life of Moscow.

The Public Council and the Direction of the International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower” invite military bands of your country to take part in the Festival in Red Square in 2013.