Russian rock band Piknik, which was scheduled to perform on Friday the evening of the Moscow attack at Crocus City Hall, announced Monday on Telegram that it would perform a concert this Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The show
“will be dedicated to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack
,” he said on the messaging service.
Piknik will be accompanied by the Tavrichesky Symphony Orchestra.
The concert will take place in the Oktyabrsky concert hall, reports the
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
newspaper .
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Commemoration
“The Piknik group, the Tavrichesky Symphony Orchestra and the organizer the EVA Foundation are looking for an opportunity to organize a commemoration evening
,” the musicians said on Telegram.
All funds raised from concert ticket sales
“will be sent to the victims and families of those killed in the terrorist attack
,” they described.
Later on Monday, the rockers announced that they were receiving a large number of requests to support the event.
The artists accompanied their message on Telegram with a photo depicting white cranes flying in the air, a reference to the song
“Cranes”
performed by Soviet singer Muslim Magomayev, which gave its name to the Crocus City Hall site.
Magomayev is known for his interpretation of this ballad about soldiers who become birds after death.
The Russian rock band Piknik, founded in 1978, was officially created in 1981 in Saint Petersburg.
He was going to give a concert last Friday in the Crocus Citu Hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, when a terrorist commando burst into the performance hall, leaving at least 139 dead and 182 injured.
“The musicians of the Piknik group were not injured”
during the attack claimed by the Islamic State, law enforcement told the Russian news agency TASS on Friday.
While the band members were saved because they were inside their dressing room, Ekaterina Kushner, the band director's assistant, died in the attack.