Troll Bends Fir is a folk metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Band members define their style as "beer folk", most lyrics are based on Scandinavian mythology and, as well as the band's image, are related to beer and brewing. TBF has its own recognizable sound combining traditional metal music instruments with violin and Irish whistle.

Natalia Andreyevna O'Shea is a Russian harpist, singer-songwriter, linguist and band leader of "Melnitsa", "Clann Lir" and "Romanesque". Earlier she took part in the "Till Eulenspiegel" project, for which she was a vocalist, author and co-author of many songs.

Orgia Pravednikov is a Russian rock group formed in 1999. The peculiar sound of the band arises from the combination of acoustic and electric sessions.

The band "Marco Polo" was founded in the spring of 2014 by three founders - Lyudmila Savostianova (music, lyrics, vocals, arrangement), Vadim Savostianov (Director, producer, PR-Manager) and Pavel Salomatin (bassist).

Generally, the band's music can be classified as "folk-rock", but the work of "Marco Polo" is hard to characterize in any style. Ludmila Savostyanova uses different approaches in every song she writes and tries to consider every composition as a soundtrack to some movie or the story. Thus, various style elements penetrate in the music, such as, for example, neo-classical, folk, hard rock, power metal, etc.

Epidemia is a Russian power metal band famous for doing the Elven Manuscript metal opera in 2004. It was formed by guitarist Yuri "Juron" Melisov in 1993, with the first songs made in 1995. The band was once nominated for an MTV Europe Music Award.

Olga Arefieva is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician. She graduated from Gnessin State Musical College, founded band "Kovcheg", composed more than 400 songs, issued 15 music albums, and won the literary prize of the magazine Znamya for her poems.
Her poetry was described by literary critics as a combination of realism and mysticism, possibly inspired by the absurdism of Daniil Kharms or the magic realism of Gabriel Márquez.
She is a member of the Union of Russian Writers. In 2004, she began to supplement her concerts with the theater performance group "Kalimba". In 2008 she published a science fiction book, Death and Adventures of Efrosinya the Beauty, which won a literary award.