The festival program includes an international parade of military bands, military rituals performance, trumpeters & drummers’s show, bagpipe show, dance show.
— International military bands show.
— Live performances of orchestras in the streets, avenues and squares of the city.
— The international show of military bands at the Cape Krustalny (the Cristal Cape).

Major projects of the festival will take place at the Cape Krustalny next to the monument of Sailor and Soldier, picturesque corner of the city overlooking the South bay, where the podium will be erected with boxes for the guests of honor. During the presentation modern sound, lighting, visual and pyrotechnic technologies will be used. In addition, the parade of festival participants in the central streets and squares of the city is planned.

The original meaning of military tattoo is a military drum performance, but nowadays it sometimes means army displays more generally. It dates from the seventeenth century when the British Army was fighting in the Low Countries (Belgium and The Netherlands). Drummers from the garrison were sent out into the towns at 21:30 hrs (9:30 PM) each evening to inform the soldiers that it was time to return to barracks. The process was known as doe den tap toe (old-Dutch for "turn off the tap"), an instruction to innkeepers to stop serving beer and send the soldiers home for the night. The drummers continued to play until the curfew at 22:00 hrs (10:00 PM).

Over the years, the process became more of a show and often included the playing of the first post at 21:30 hrs and the last post at 22:00. Bands and displays were included and shows were often conducted by floodlight or searchlight. Tattoos were commonplace in the late 1800s with most military and garrison towns putting on some kind of show or entertainment during the summer months. Between the First World War and the Second World War elaborate tattoos were held in many towns, with the largest in Aldershot.

One of the best known Tattoos is held on the Esplanade in front of Edinburgh Castle each August and forms the centrepiece of the annual Edinburgh Festival. In Russia, the main military tattoo is Moscow International Military Music Festival "Spasskaya Tower" http://kremlin-military-tattoo.ru/, which is traditionally held on the occasion for the City Day and takes place on Red Square. As one of the brightest and most notable events in the cultural life of the capital of Russia, each year the festival collects the best honorary units of Heads of States, leading military orchestras and creative teams from Russia and foreign countries.

Organizers of the "War and Peace" festival are confident that the festival of military orchestras Sevastopol Military Tattoo will be an outstanding event and an integral part of the cultural life of Sebastopol, highlighting the glorious military past and present of the city.

Participants (preliminary list)

Ukraine:

Russia:

Orchestra of Russia's Navy

Germany:

Marinemusikkorps Nordsee

Turkey:

Osmanli Mehter Orkestrasi (Mehter Military Orchestra)

Main Venue:

the Cape Krustalny (the Cristal Cape)

City Center