{"id":537505,"date":"2026-04-28T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537505"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:06:31","slug":"lidbeer-festival-in-lida-will-take-place-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lidbeer-festival-in-lida-will-take-place-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Lidbeer Festival In Lida Will Take Place After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Lidbeer festival in Lida will be held on August 29. <em>\u201cYou didn\u2019t imagine it, Lidbeer\u20192026 is happening,\u201d<\/em> the organizers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@lidskaebeer\/post\/DXrOfzAFyf2?xmt=AQF0BU2C6LYGOmpQe9KLAmHZc04Hyw7mAD5LWIbMGDVCLw\">wrote<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in March, information appeared that the festival would not take place <em>\u201cfor reasons beyond the organizers\u2019 control.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The return of the festival was explained by the fact that this year marks the 150th anniversary of the company \u201cLidskaje Piva.\u201d It was also attributed to numerous requests to bring the festival back.<\/p>\n<p>The Lidbeer festival is one of the largest in Belarus, annually gathering more than 100,000 guests. In 2023, the festival took place in September after a three-year break. It was timed to the 700th anniversary of Lida. The festival was free and had different organizers. The headliner was the Belarusian symphonic orchestra Classic Energy, whose cover versions of Nirvana, Queen, and Bon Jovi were sung along to by a crowd of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, instead of the Lidbeer festival, the \u201cKharchFest\u201d was held, dedicated to the food industry of the Hrodna region. The concert\u2019s headliner was <strong><b>Olga Buzova<\/b><\/strong>, who is under sanctions for supporting the war. In 2025, Russian performers were also among the headliners.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat Lidbeer where Okean Elzy, Krambambulya, and Piatlia Prykhilnasci performed on the same stage will remain in my heart forever. It\u2019s interesting, of course, who the headliner will be this time?\u201d<\/em> users wrote in the comments (spelling preserved).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"info\"><p><strong>Subscribe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/cult_front\">to Reform.news cultural news<\/a> on Telegram<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lidbeer festival in Lida will be held on August 29. \u201cYou didn\u2019t imagine it, Lidbeer\u20192026 is happening,\u201d the organizers wrote on social media. Earlier, in March, information appeared that the festival would not take place \u201cfor reasons beyond the organizers\u2019 control.\u201d The return of the festival was explained by the fact that this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f191da52e3e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lidbeer Festival In Lida Will Take Place After All"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}