DrvoTruo

The acoustic trio Drvo Truo arrives to the Festival from Kikinda. They play jazz, but that summer, swing kind, mixed with pop, rock and blues. They are side by side together for four and a half years – the line-up: Jovan Bajkin (vocals and rhythm guitar), Aleksandar Lipovan (guitar) and Srđan Stojanović (violin and back vocals).

Beside Kikinda, they played in clubs in Subotica, Bačka Topola, Novi Bečej, Bečej, Kovačica, Lazarevac, Valjevo, Novi Sad and Belgrade, but also playing in front of foreign audiences in: Podgorica, Rijeka, Timisoara, Berlin…

In the summer of 2011 their first album was released simply titled – Reproduction. The album is made up of ten cover songs of foreign musicians, ten really first-class unplugged works, creatively arranged and masterfully performed.

One year later, on request from the National Theatre in Kikinda, they arranged and recorded tracks that were to be the leading music themes for the play Pajama For Six. Based on the text by Marc Camoletti and directed by Olivera Đorđević, the play was an excellent opportunity for the audience to hear how Drvo Truo perform a sequence of great 80s hits, spanning from You Spin Me Round of the neo-romantic Dead Or Alive to Tell Me Lies of the great Fleetwood Mac.

Jovan, Aleksandar and Srđan last year recorded their first original single, for the song Zima (Winter), which later received a descent video. “Currently we are working on new songs, for our first studio album”, explains Aleksandar. “Live, on the repertoire we have selected songs mostly of foreign performers, covered in a melancholic Banat or manouche, jazz-swing manner, with a touch of country, blues, pop or rock.”

On this year’s Street Musicians Festival, Drvo Truo will beside their original compositions also play songs of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Sting, Paul Weller, Edwyn Collins, and the bands The Smiths, U2, Depeche Mode, The Police, Mando Diao, Kings of Convenience, Alphaville…