Ethnic musical companies from Croatia and Venezuela will take part in the 11th international folk music festival Dulcimer and Accordion Sounds that is to open on June 6, BelTA learnt from Natalia Bulavintseva, the head of the cultural department of the Postavy regional executive committee. Apart from the guests from South Europe and the South American continent, the festival in Postavy will welcome nearly 20 collectives from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland. The participants of the event will demonstrate the national music art and partake in the work of the scientific and creative laboratory headed by honoured figure of culture of Belarus Vladimir Grom, the pedagogue of the wind instruments department of Belarusian State University of Culture, the head of the folklore ensemble Krupitskiya Muzyki. According to the musical critics, the Postavy festival unites authentic national and folk music. According to Natalia Bulavintseva, the festival’s headline will become a concert theatrical performance Music of Old-Time Estates of Belarus near the palace of Tyzenhauzes. This year the festival will mark the 275th birthday of Antoni Tyzenhauz, the patron who greatly contributed to the development of Grodno and Postavy. The Grodno chamber orchestra will take part in the concert. The festival will include an exhibition of craftsmen, national cuisine, sightseeing of the Postavy region, contests. The festival will be wrapped up with a gala concert on June 8.