Jury
- Eric de Fontenay (China) - music producer, promoter, MusicDish director;
- Tatiana Baksheeva (Russia) - Irkutsk concert agency founder, producer of the Irkutsk authentic music ensemble;
- Melis Kant Mandal (Russia) - founder and general producer of Sticky Jam, director and co-founder or Pantam Temple concert venue in Moscow;
- Artemiy Troitskiy (Latvia) - one of the leading specialists in modern Russian music, music critic, founder of the Stepnoy Volk music award (2008-2014);
- David Macfadien (USA) - California University professor, founder of the Far From Moscow project, head of the Pacific Sound & Vision Foundation, supporting young musicians in Russia and CIS;
- Olga Glazova (Russia) - professional gusli player, composer, laureate of Russian and international competitions;
- Yuri Romanov (Russia) - founder and director of ethnic festivals (VotEtno, Spirit of Siberia, Fairytale Siberia);
