EZO FESTIVAL
Ezo is an open-air electronic music festival that began as a Mzesumzira project and outgrew it, becoming its own organisation entirely. It was one of the first outdoor dance music festivals in Tbilisi, and it grew into one of the top house music destinations in Europe.
Ezo festival ran as a season rather than a single event. From May to September we built and operated a permanent site, five parties a season, each lasting 48+ hours. We built the site by hand with artists and volunteers, grew gardens, rescued and looked after stray animals, and hosted industry talks, educational programmes, fairs and food courts.
The space and parties were unmatched. Legendary artists who could play anywhere kept asking to come back season after season. Ezo became a date international acts wanted on their calendar.
In 2025 the government shut the permanent site down, and ten years of what we had built had to be torn down by the people who built it. In 2026 the festival came back for a single 48-hour party at a new test location. It starts again from there.
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Photos: Mariam Giunashvili; Maro Merkviladze; Tornike Shengelia; Ketio