A book with notes and lyrics about the native land was presented in Karkaralinsk.
The event was celebrated with a big concert, where the compositions included in the collection were performed.
There are 61 songs in the book in total.
They were collected by employees of the Karkaraly cultural and leisure center of the Sholpan Zhandarbekova estate.
– The idea to create such a collection was born to me many years ago, when the song "Tabigat Padishasy" by Lyudmila Melnikova appeared. Her notes were published in the newspaper "Karkaraly", and the song itself is dedicated to the 180th anniversary of Karkaralinsk. It is symbolic that at the concert in honor of the release of the collection, I sang this song myself," recalls Bayan Akhmetova, a methodologist at the Sholpan Zhandarbekova Cultural and Leisure Center.
There was no way to bring the idea to life right away. There were few suitable songs, and not everyone could find notes that could be printed in the collection. Like-minded colleagues helped solve the problem.
– When I came to work at the cultural and leisure center, I told my colleagues about my idea. They supported me, and we posted an announcement on social networks that we were looking for songs about Karkaralinsk. And so, by a thread, bit by bit, we collected all the necessary material," says Bayan Akhmetova.
You can listen to the songs included in the collection on the YouTube platform – https://youtu.be/CFmtNSJEWJ0?si=vn--EDRqyh2NwY89 .
There is a full recording of the concert dedicated to the release of the collection.
The compositions are performed by such singers as Serzhan Musayyn, Zhaksygeldy Kemalov, Daurenbek Arkenov, Nurlytan Sayatkyzy, as well as the Saltanat ensemble and the Karkaraly Auenderi vocal group.
Some of the songs were performed by the authors themselves – Kanat Mersalimov, Sarsen Abishev and Alimzhan Makenov.
The choreographic ensemble "Anyz" also performed on the stage.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/karaganda/press/news/details/890074