Lviv Bandur Fest 2026 — An unbreakable tradition!
Lviv Bandur Fest 2026 — An Unbreakable Tradition!
On 3–4 October, Lviv Bandur Fest returns to Lviv! This year, the contemporary bandura festival will also take place in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Berlin.
The slogan for the 2026 festival is ‘An Unbreakable Tradition’. For us, this is about music that continues to live on, evolve and bring people together even in the most challenging times.
Lviv Bandur Fest was founded in 2017. Over the years, the festival has brought together Ukraine’s most interesting contemporary bandura players and performers from abroad, with events taking place at various venues across Lviv. After a forced hiatus caused by the full-scale war, the festival is returning — refreshed, but with the same love for the bandura.
3 October — Lem Station
The first day of the festival will be packed with events and very varied:
12:00 – 14:00 – Panel discussions on music, the bandura, war, cultural resistance and the future of tradition.
13:00 – Opening of the fair, bandura presentations
15:00 – Start of the daytime programme. You can look forward to performances by unique artists: Yuliana Kytasty from New York, Taras Kompanichenko, Andriy Siletskyi, Taras Dorotskyi and Anastasia Voituk.
You’ll have the chance to hear the old-world bandura, as well as original and folk pieces performed in the Kharkiv style.
19:00 – Start of the evening programme.
A spectacular, high-energy concert of contemporary bandura music featuring the bands: ‘Three Steps into the Night’, ‘Shepit’, BanduraGirl with her band, ‘Krokis’ and special celebrity guests, whom we will announce very soon.
All events on 3 October will take place at Lem Station.
