The Italian brass-percussion marching orchestra BadaBimBumBand will present to the audience of this year’s Street Musicians Festival not one, but two of their mobile shows – the first titled Bandita, and the other Wanna Gonna Show. As they announced, Bandita is an entertaining performance, fresh, easy, ironical and original. Playing for all ears, not restricting themselves to one, specific genre, but playing jazz, and Dixieland, and funk, and there will be a cappella parts, acquired from the musical heritage of Tuscany (from where these musicians come from). read more →
Renowned French artist Jean Ménigault is coming yet again to Novi Sad, on the Street Musicians Festival! This talented street performer – actor, clown, dancer and pantomime – usually performs in front of audiences in Italy and France, solo or as a member of different troupes. Jean Ménigault (50) is a producer and art director, but also a teacher and instructor. read more →
Born in 1978 Parma, during her studies Lisa began to be interested in Indian philosophy, yoga and meditation. During that period she encounters her most important teachers, first in Italy, and then in Africa, where she studies yoga as a spiritual discipline. Through her love of yoga she reaches the theatre. read more →
Ferdinando D’Andria and Maila Sparapani arrive from Italy to this year’s Street Musicians Festival. After successful open-air performances in front of delighted crowds in France, Spain and Croatia, Nando and Maila, experienced street musicians and entertainers, will offer the citizens of Novi Sad and their guests a side-splitting play titled Sconcerto d’Amore. read more →
The grand opening of this year’s 15th consecutive, jubilee edition of the Street Musicians Festival will be held on Thursday, 3rd September, when in the center of Novi Sad, on the Freedom Square, two festival stages will feature the street musical clash between the Rijeka’s cult shock rock band Let 3 and Novi Sad’s popular punk-rock group Atheist Rap. read more →
The Italian brass-percussion marching orchestra BadaBimBumBand will present to the audience of this year’s Street Musicians Festival not one, but two of their mobile shows – the first titled Bandita, and the other Wanna Gonna Show. As they announced, Bandita is an entertaining performance, fresh, easy, ironical and original. Playing for all ears, not restricting themselves to one, specific genre, but playing jazz, and Dixieland, and funk, and there will be a cappella parts, acquired from the musical heritage of Tuscany (from where these musicians come from). read more →
The youngest visitors of the Street Musicians Festival will also be offered good energy and an interactive dance during the performance Dance The Dance We Dance. The creator of this show is Neda Popović, the choreographer and dance instructor from Novi Sad (two years ago, on the Festival, she organized the program Get Lucky Flash Mob!), while the kids who participate in the show Dance The Dance We Dance come from several Novi Sad dance studios (Studio Five, Partizan 2, Profesional and Heart Dance Team). read more →
Born in 1978 Parma, during her studies Lisa began to be interested in Indian philosophy, yoga and meditation. During that period she encounters her most important teachers, first in Italy, and then in Africa, where she studies yoga as a spiritual discipline. Through her love of yoga she reaches the theatre. read more →
The Italian brass-percussion marching orchestra BadaBimBumBand will present to the audience of this year’s Street Musicians Festival not one, but two of their mobile shows – the first titled Bandita, and the other Wanna Gonna Show. As they announced, Bandita is an entertaining performance, fresh, easy, ironical and original. Playing for all ears, not restricting themselves to one, specific genre, but playing jazz, and Dixieland, and funk, and there will be a cappella parts, acquired from the musical heritage of Tuscany (from where these musicians come from). read more →
Born in Sremska Mitrovica, Vuk Muškinja finished design school in Novi Sad. Afterwards, he graduated from the Academy of fine arts in Belgrade on wall painting. But, this painter always had his own, let us call it, musical side… read more →
This year’s Street Musicians Festival will be a chance for you to meet Novi Sad’s Kreativni pogon (Creative Drive). “We are a citizens’ association gathered around current events and then finding a way to present them through our performances. As part of our work we use contemporary circus techniques, physical theatre, modern dance and all that we can think of, having crazy fun along the way. We develop our skills through everyday practice as well as taking part in various workshops and master classes having to do with the performing arts”, said the members of Kreativni pogon. read more →
The band from Novi Sad Lepi Jova numbers six, met playing in an art center. Milorad Kukić plays the pipe and is the guitarist, on clarinet and saxophone Miloš Mijatović, Miroslav Majstorović plays the violin, Željko Džakić plays the guitar, Tibor Sabo on bass, while Njegoš Krakić is liable for the percussions (tarabuka, bongos…). read more →
Banja Luka is their city, and Django Reinhardt is their great idol. Nylon Club is a relatively young gypsy jazz ensemble, created as a result of a common wish of three (then) high school boys to keep the musical legacy of the great Django alive, the influential Belgian-French virtuoso on guitar who has mixed his Romani musical spark with elements of jazz and French modern. read more →
Craig Sutton, better known as The Flamenco Thief, plays jazz mixed with flamenco. This ambitious, English virtuoso, who travels and performs tirelessly, often treats his guitar as a purely rhythmic, percussion instrument, in front of crowds, who because of it love to get down and dance the night away. The Flamenco Thief is a fast and precise old-school guitar player, but a capable artist who loves to use modern guitar effects and rhythms close to hip-hop. As he himself says, ska and hip-hop, and most of all gypsy swing, were most influential on his style. read more →
Renowned French artist Jean Ménigault is coming yet again to Novi Sad, on the Street Musicians Festival! This talented street performer – actor, clown, dancer and pantomime – usually performs in front of audiences in Italy and France, solo or as a member of different troupes. Jean Ménigault (50) is a producer and art director, but also a teacher and instructor. read more →
Ferdinando D’Andria and Maila Sparapani arrive from Italy to this year’s Street Musicians Festival. After successful open-air performances in front of delighted crowds in France, Spain and Croatia, Nando and Maila, experienced street musicians and entertainers, will offer the citizens of Novi Sad and their guests a side-splitting play titled Sconcerto d’Amore. read more →
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Milivoje Petrović, known to audiences under his stag name Miško Plavi, arrived to the music scene at the beginning of the 80s. In VIA Talas he played guitar, while he played bass for the group D’Boys. Afterwards he was on guitar, bas and keyboards in Piloti. In the band Piloti he played for eleven years, while for a short period of time he even played bas for Ekatarina Velika. read more →
This interesting trio, to Novi Sad, on this year’s Street Musicians Festival, come from the Hungarian town of Pécs. Bencsik Gergely (violin), Hajba Gergő (guitar) and Bánhalmi Zsolt (percussions) perform world and ambient music, that is post-folk and urban folk. Interestingly, INTU was most influenced, as they say themselves, by the violinist from Subotica Lajko Feliks and the popular Australian roots and jam ensemble John Butler Trio. read more →
From the capital city of Croatia to this year’s Street Musicians Festival arrives Davor Peršić, an original entertainer, passionate circussologist and experienced street musician. This graduate of sociology (Sociological aspects of dance and the contribution to its affirmation the title of his thesis) inspiration for dance as his life’s motto, but also his calling, found as still only a child, from when his creative work with sound, wood and various other kinds of unusual musical instruments begins, continuing to this very day. read more →
The man from Zrenjanin, Aleksandar Stamenković will introduce the audience on this year’s Street Musicians Festival to the greatest smallest instrument – the jaw harp, becoming especially popular in our country after the classic film Ko to tamo peva (Who’s Singin’ Over There, 1980). read more →
The Italian brass-percussion marching orchestra BadaBimBumBand will present to the audience of this year’s Street Musicians Festival not one, but two of their mobile shows – the first titled Bandita, and the other Wanna Gonna Show. As they announced, Bandita is an entertaining performance, fresh, easy, ironical and original. Playing for all ears, not restricting themselves to one, specific genre, but playing jazz, and Dixieland, and funk, and there will be a cappella parts, acquired from the musical heritage of Tuscany (from where these musicians come from). read more →
The four-member band from Rijeka, My Buddy Moose, creates, records and performs a mixture of garage rock, punk, soul and country. They are beloved by the audience prone to the so called Americana sound, but also the fans of good, quality rock. Whilst in studios they cooperated and shared the stage with some truly legendary international names of rock‘n’roll. read more →
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). read more →
Nenad Marić – poet, singer and guitar player who has performed for ten years under the name Kralj Čačka (King Of Čačak) – arrives to this year’s Street Musicians Festival with a reputation as the best or at least most exciting new home-grown singer-songwriter. This will be his first real performance in Novi Sad. read more →
The show Šljivik is an original piece by a group of young people, and was created as part of the Except project. From their given topic, titled: In what kind of world would we want to live in, comes out, as they announce, a great many materials for the building of this short form of street performing. read more →
The art duo Zorana Milošaković-Tasić and Goran Balančević Balanac, stars of the Puppet Theatre “Pinokio” and the Little Theatre “Duško Radović” in Belgrade, have prepared a play for the youngest visitors of the Street Musicians Festival titled Musical Show. “Rock’n’roll is eternal as long as the kids keep the faith, said Cane from Partibrejkers. That sentence was our starting point for the creation of this mix of comedy, imitation and a musical game of wits. Musical Show will actually be a big concert, with performances from Bajaga, Cane and Neša Galija. There will also be that Korean Gangnam Style, so the kids can let go and party. It will all go on playback, and the two actors will animate the entire thing”, said Zorana Milošaković-Tasić. read more →
Arriving to the Street Musicians Festival from Gornji Milanovac is Dušana Stefanović. Coming with her is her guitar, voice and love towards music – French chansons and songs belonging to the so called Ex-Yu rock. “That was the music of my parents, the music I grew up with. Songs of Jadranka Stojaković, and of newer artists as is Ana Stanić. I adored them and they led me to guitar playing. Now, when I am older, I am in constant search for new artists. I am amazed by the local band Ničim izazvan, and by foreign ones as well, Clapton, Sting and Arctic Monkeys”, explains Dušana. read more →
Young people from the Dancers’ Association Groove and dance studios Professional and Magic People will on the Street Musicians Festival present dance styles: hip-hop, house dance, popping, dancehall, break dance and voguing. “This won’t only be a retrospective of street dance styles, but also a simulation of the evolution of each dance style individually, through music and movement, from the 80s up until today. The audience will have a chance to both visually and audibly visit New York, Chicago or Kingston and breath in part of the real street culture atmosphere. This dance program was created in support of Novi Sad receiving the prestigious title of European Capital for Culture, and is part of the promotional campaign Culture On The Move”, said Novi Sad’s street dancers.
Duo Nomadiko from Novi Sad are Neda Nosović (vocals and guitar) and Ivan Seničić (guitar). Performing music of the Russian Romani, known to the wider audiences for the Soviet cult film Tabor uhodit v nebo (Queen Of The Gypsies, 1975). The music of Duo Nomadiko is filled with strong passions, rebellion and melancholy. Neda and Ivan are working together from 2013. You have probably seen or heard them in one of the many cafés in Novi Sad, and, as we found out, they have performed in front of audiences in Žabalj, Zemun, Kraljevo… read more →
Ferdinando D’Andria and Maila Sparapani arrive from Italy to this year’s Street Musicians Festival. After successful open-air performances in front of delighted crowds in France, Spain and Croatia, Nando and Maila, experienced street musicians and entertainers, will offer the citizens of Novi Sad and their guests a side-splitting play titled Sconcerto d’Amore. read more →
This year’s Street Musicians Festival will be a chance for you to meet Novi Sad’s Kreativni pogon (Creative Drive). “We are a citizens’ association gathered around current events and then finding a way to present them through our performances. As part of our work we use contemporary circus techniques, physical theatre, modern dance and all that we can think of, having crazy fun along the way. We develop our skills through everyday practice as well as taking part in various workshops and master classes having to do with the performing arts”, said the members of Kreativni pogon. read more →
Kezz is the stage name of singer-songwriter from Kikinda Tamara Ristić. As we find out, from her early childhood she has been on stage. She was just five when she began to act in the Kikinda Art Theatre, and while she was nine she already had her first musical performance. As an individual and as a part of various musical projects, Tamara has up to now performed in numerous towns across our country, but has also recorded performances in Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic and Norway. read more →
Eight-member band Wooden Ambulance perform melancholy Americana mixed with rock and blues. In the foreground is the velvet baritone Goran Grubišić, while behind him is a very rich mosaic, composed of harmonica, banjo, slide guitar, and violin sections. read more →
Renowned French artist Jean Ménigault is coming yet again to Novi Sad, on the Street Musicians Festival! This talented street performer – actor, clown, dancer and pantomime – usually performs in front of audiences in Italy and France, solo or as a member of different troupes. Jean Ménigault (50) is a producer and art director, but also a teacher and instructor. read more →
The Belgrade singer-songwriter Ilija Ludvig emerged from musical anonymity in 2007, appearing on the compilation Jutro će promeniti sve? (Morning Will Change Everything?), rated as a great release by PGP RTS. The compilation offered songs of home-grown musicians who were those days making announcing their arrival – the bands Goribor, Repetitor, Nežni Dalibor and The Mothership Orchestra. But, even among such tough competition, Ilija’s exceptional number Mikonos shined in its full glory… read more →
Born in 1978 Parma, during her studies Lisa began to be interested in Indian philosophy, yoga and meditation. During that period she encounters her most important teachers, first in Italy, and then in Africa, where she studies yoga as a spiritual discipline. Through her love of yoga she reaches the theatre. read more →
Love towards 50s and 60s tunes, the twist and Latin swirls, retro dresses and oldie suits and fabulous hairstyles – that’s what you need for VIS Limunada (Vocal And Instrumental Ensemble Lemonade)! The group exists three years now, while the current line-up consist of: Miodrag Ninić (vocals and acoustic guitar), Vladimir Živković (solo guitar), Duška Rajković (bass and vocals), Borko Milojković (keyboards), Marija Kovačina (percussions and back vocals) and Stefan Pejatović (drums). read more →
Gabon is a country in Central Africa, located between Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo. This former French colony, because of its significant oil reserves, is today one among the ten richest African countries, but, as things usually go, mostly in favor of the urban elite (most of the population still lives in the interior of the country, modestly, through agriculture). read more →
Five member ensemble of acoustic player InSession arrive to the Street Musicians Festival from Slovenia, more precisely: from Maribor. Tamara Pešić, on lead vocals, Matej Tisaj, on percussions, Mihael Miško, on bass, and Dejan Damjanović and Vid Visočnik on guitar, performing original and cover pop and rock tracks, while they explain the name of the band like this: read more →
The Belgrade jazz band Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra – just as the Street Musicians Festival – celebrating its 15th birthday. The group numbers eight: singer Aleksandra Bijelić, keyboards Aleksandar Miletić, brass section Sava Matić, Nemanja Zlatarev and Veljko Kenkovski, Vladimir Racković on banjo, Ivan Maksimović on double bass and on drums Miloš Milosavljević. read more →
Fire serpents, fans, polls and poi, fire spitting, juggling on the edge of danger and excitement, the night adventure of the attractive icy show program, the big light party, acrobatics, ferry dancing… All this on the fifteenth jubilee Street Musicians Festival, in the center of Novi Sad, brings the crew of skilled street performers called Haos žongleri (Chaos Jugglers). read more →
Craig Sutton, better known as The Flamenco Thief, plays jazz mixed with flamenco. This ambitious, English virtuoso, who travels and performs tirelessly, often treats his guitar as a purely rhythmic, percussion instrument, in front of crowds, who because of it love to get down and dance the night away. The Flamenco Thief is a fast and precise old-school guitar player, but a capable artist who loves to use modern guitar effects and rhythms close to hip-hop. As he himself says, ska and hip-hop, and most of all gypsy swing, were most influential on his style. read more →
Novi Sad’s live electronic band Don’t Touch Anything (DTA) is up and running for the last two years. Moša and Špira founded the band, and then Marko the drummer joined in. Electronic live, is what DTA is bringing to the stage. read more →
Certainly the biggest stars on this year’s Street Musicians Festival are the members of the American ten-man swing band Phat Cat Swinger. Come September, for the first time, they will arrive to Serbia – from Apple Valley, a town in the American Sunny State of California – ready to gift the audience in Novi Sad an unforgettable night of dance. read more →
