TIRANA, December 19/ATA/ Minister of Culture Elva Margariti shared on social media the good news that the Gjirokastra Folk Festival will be held again.
“The coming National Folk Festival of Gjirokastra will take place in June”, wrote Minister Margariti.
It will be a parade of motifs, rhythms, colors, songs, dances, rituals that will be unfolded in the in the stone city. The minister wrote that the preparations for this festival have already begun.
The first National Folklore Festival of Gjirokastra took place in 1968, in the stone fortress of Gjirokastra. Since then, the festival has been held every five years.
The 70s can also be considered the peak in the history of this festival, where there were more than 1 thousand selected participants.
The Gjirokastra Festival was conceived in the form of a folklore competition, where until the festival of 1988, there were given prizes to the best groups, while in its last editions the prizes would be awarded to the bearers and interpreters of folklore. /j.p/p.s./
