Zaxidfest (Ukrainian: Західфест [ˌzɑxidˈfɛst]; previously known as Zaxid) is an annual international music and art festival held in the middle of August near Lviv, Ukraine.
ZAKHID was founded in 2009 as a festival of Ukrainian rock and ethno music.
[1][2] Later it has lost an attachment to some concrete music genre and was expanded by different foreign artists (including Anti-Flag, Caliban, Clawfinger, Ektomorf, Everlast, Ill Niño, Kreator, Oomph!, Zdob şi Zdub and others).
Also some artists are invited based on organizers' initiative and their names are hidden until the tickets sales start.
In 2009 and 2010 Zakhid was held in towns of Zvenyhorod and Stare Selo[5] respectively (around 20 km from Lviv).