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VORONEZH, March 27 The concert of singer Ani Lorak, scheduled for April 24 in Voronezh, has been rescheduled, according to the website of the Event Hall, where the performance was scheduled.
The concert was supposed to take place in Voronezh on April 24, tickets for it were sold at a price of 2 to 10 thousand rubles. At the moment, according to the scheme of the concert hall, less than half of the tickets for the event have been sold.
«The concert of Ani Lorak is postponed. Dear viewers, for all questions regarding the concert of Ani Lorak, please contact the organizers of this event,» the Voronezh Concert Hall said in a statement. How long the singer's concert is postponed and how the audience can return tickets is not reported. Representatives of the concert venue are currently unavailable for communication.
As a spokesperson for Event Hall previously said, the performance «was supposed to be held first on March 10, 2021, and then on October 14, 2021, but the concert was postponed due to the pandemic.» The organizers of the event said they have not yet given any comments.
Earlier, the singer's concert was canceled in Krasnodar. There performance was to take place on 27 April. Mayor of Krasnodar Yevgeny Naumov wrote on his telegram channel that the townspeople are against the fact that they «put on a show by people who confess their love to the ruling authorities in Ukraine, who are fighting against us.» According to the mayor, there is no guarantee that the money earned will not be used to purchase shells and ammunition for those «who are fighting against our guys.» The message on the official telegram channel of the Krasnodar city administration also cited Lorak saying that no one has the right to «dictate how … to love and support her country», and that, according to the singer, she makes her «contribution to cause of peace, harmony, support of Ukrainian citizens» in the way he considers «necessary and worthy».
On Sunday, the singer said on her Telegram channel that she does not support Ukrainian troops and that she can help «only as part of a humanitarian mission, which she has been doing all her life.» «In 2014, some politicians in Ukraine wanted to use me for their own purposes, which I could not agree with. As a result, I found myself in a very uncomfortable situation and faced negative consequences in my life, which only my inner circle knows about,» she wrote. The artist stressed that she does not position herself as a politician and does not want to make political statements.
Singer Ani Lorak was born in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine. In 2008 she became the People's Artist of Ukraine. However, after 2014 she did not perform at home and permanently resided in Russia. In August last year, Ani Lorak announced a tour, but there were no Russian cities on it. In December, she performed the vocal part in Tatyana Navka's ice musical theater show «Scheherazade's Love Story» in Moscow.
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