The most popular Balkan brass bands music festival!
30.8.-3.09. 2006
About 500,000 people of varying ages visit the Festival in Guca. Among the foreign visitors there have been individuals from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Poland, Macedonia, USA... People drink about 3 million liters of beer. There are 50 trailers that are 22 meters long full of svadbarki kupus – a national dish.
"It is fair to say that usually not very much happens in the hills and valleys that make up this part of rural Serbia.
The silence is broken only by the sound of farmyard animals and the occasional tractor.
At least that is the case for 51 weeks of the year.
And then the trumpets come to town - hundreds. And behind them, close to half a million visitors who descend on this village for an exhausting week of music, dance and very little sleep. " (BBC)
The most popular musicians are the Roma - or Gypsies. Scores of bands compete in a competition for the coveted golden trumpet - an award that more often than not will lead to a recording contract and enough wedding bookings to keep the winning band busy for months.
But it is away from the main stage, in the bars, restaurants and catering tents that the action really takes place !!!
It goes on late into the night, and starts again first thing in the morning...
Four nights accommodation including breakfast, in two and three bed rooms in private homes - € 150 per person
WELCOME TO GUCA!
contact person:
Jelena Lukic
serbika@cepeline.net
Serbika/Daydream
Serbian Language Programme
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