Colour of Ostrava comes to close

The four-day Colours of Ostrava music festival is drawing to an end, with UK producer and singer James Blake and Swedish artist Zara Larsson set to headline Saturday’s closing night. Also performing will be the Dutch-Iranian musician Sevdaliza, who failed to arrive on Friday do the global IT outage.

The biggest star on Friday was the American singer Lenny Kravitz, whose perfromance was attended by Czech President Petr Pavel. Fans at the festival’s venue in Ostrava’s ex-industrial Vítkovice district also got to see the UK singer Sam Smith and the popular Czech band Tata Bojs.

This year’s has been the 21st edition of Colours of Ostrava, which is one of the biggest events of its kind in Central Europe.