Viral Video: Musicians plays inside the metro station in Ukraine’s Kharkiv

Despite the shelling and explosions, performers began off the Kharkiv Music Fest 2022 on March 26 in the Istorychnyi Myzei metro station, which is now being used as a bomb shelter.

Ukrainians in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, would have been enjoying the annual Kharkiv Music Fest in a larger venue if the war hadn’t broken out.

The musicians performed a symbolic start of the classical music festival, which is conducted every year during which great Ukrainian and worldwide artists participate, and left many tearful, according to organisers.

A Twitter user shared a video of the concert, Johannes Gutenberg, with the caption, “Today marks the opening day of the #Kharkiv Music Festival & the people of Ukraine’s 2nd city weren’t going to let Russian bombs stop them.”

People may be heard applauding the musicians as they play instruments on the steps at the end of the video. “Events like this are a ray of light that help us to trust in positivity and to be sure that everything will be okay,” Maria, a Kharkiv resident, is heard saying in English subtitles.

Check out the viral video here:

Today marks the opening day of the #Kharkiv Music Festival & the people of Ukraine's 2nd city weren't going to let Russian bombs stop them.

Musicians put on an emotional concert in the metro which is acting as a bomb shelter 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦#UkraineRussianWar #SlavaUkraini #powerful pic.twitter.com/vrIm1JBdke

— Johannes Gutenberg (@Joha__Gutenberg) March 27, 2022

A cello player Denys Karachevtsev is heard saying in the video, “It was an idea, which way I can be helpful for my people, for my country and my native city, Kharkiv.”

He added, “Because I am a citizen of Kharkiv and I really love this city and these people.”

Another Twitter user stated, “The music festival opened in #Kharkiv (under the bombs): first they played in the subway, then in a bomb shelter. Video from the opening of the festival KharkivMusicFest – which took place not in the large Philharmonic Hall, as planned, but in the Historical Museum metro station.”

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