Tommy Emmanuel c.g.p.:

"I think MAMAKABO can grow up and become famous all over the world"

Gareth Hance ("Antonio Forchione Quartet" tour manager):

"I work mostly with festivals all year round, from Sydney to Inverness.. and I was very impressed by the great atmosphere you have created. The programming was terrific. Well done! And keep up the good work!"

Jenny Adejayan ("Antonio Forchione Quartet"):

"We all had such a great time and really appreciate MAMAKABO hospitality and good vibes. Would be nice to stay in touch... and hopefully we'll get to meet again sometime in the future!"

Ivan Smirnov (guitar):

“When any festival is born, it is always a very important event, especially if it unites musicians of kindred spirit. Musical environment is filled with “popsa”, which makes everybody sick. MAMAKABO Festival helps to fill cultural vacuum and create new musical environment”.

Dmitri Maloletov (guitar):

“ … Now musicians, specializing in instrumental music, have an epicenter uniting around it a great army of instrumentalists because MAMAKABO Festival is not a one-time show; it is a musical and social movement, collecting friends – musicians, united by love for music”.

Andrei Shepeljov ("Grassmeister", dobro, lap steel):

“Festival has much in common with Andrey Baranov himself - he loved and played various music, but it was always kind and of great talent”.

Enver Izmailov (guitar, Ukraine):

"MAMAKABO is a very interesting phenomenon – both by its idea and composition; it is held not in a single place, but travels to different cities and countries. And that’s great, as nothing can unite people the way music does".

Yevgeni Chusovskoy ("Two Siberians" manager):

"When you come to other festivals you see that many groups show NO difference at all! The pattern of artistic performance is absolutely the same! And that is - format, format and again - format! And MAMAKABO gives you the chance to get something other than format - to get what you want, to see versatile groups, not alike in anything - whether it is faces, guitars or other instruments! That is MAMAKABO!"

Irina Surina (vocal):

"MAMAKABO is MY festival. Our festival is very bright, that’s why it is associated with yellow and orange colors-those of the sun-light. The music at our festival loads neither brain nor consciousness, it is a permanent wave of positive, where one drifts - that’s the main difference. And, moreover, it’s all live – the quality we miss so hard. When a person comes to the stage, it immediately becomes obvious whether he can or cannot do something. There’s no place to hide there. Once you set foot on the stage- you deserve staying there because you can do something which will appeal to people. And that will be fair, right and great".

Timur Vedernikov (MAMAKABO General producer; guitar, dobro, harp, vocal)

"Nobody will deny that good people constitute the majority - the problem is they are worth organized. International art-festival MAMAKABO is a happy exception to the common rule. Five years ago when it all started, it was hard to imagine that the festival would extend to such degree, developing into a real musical movement. There are musicians, who play great music, and there are people who enjoy it. And there is MAMAKABO festival to unite us all".