This year, the Festival "World of Music" is held in the Open-air Museum "Old Village" in Sirogojno for the fifth time. The main idea of the Festival is to introduce Museum visitors to the traditional music of Serbia and the Balkans through concerts and educational workshops. Festival audience has the opportunity to see "alive" and hear the actual performers of traditional music and to get to know folk instruments, different types of singing and playing. Traditional music, as well as the intangible cultural heritage in general, is a "living" process that is constantly changing, so the traditional music has been influenced by different music genres and cultures. The Festival "World of Music" is trying to show that change but also the roots from which musical tradition originated.
The list of performers at this year’s Festival "World of Music":
August 8, 2015
01.00 PM
Miroslav Tadić
Miroslav Tadić
In 1997, the renowned US magazine "Guitar Player" declared Miroslav Tadić one of the 30 most original guitarists of the world. As a guitarist, composer and arranger, Tadić tried his hand at a number of musical styles such as Jazz, Rock, Blues, World Music and Classical Music. He has collaborated with a number of musicians from around the world, including Jack Bruce, Joachim Kühn, Maria João, Jadranka Stojaković, Placido Domingo, London Symphony Orchestra and guitarists Vlatko Stefanovski and Dušan Bogdanović. He often makes concerts throughout Europe, America and Asia and has performed in some of the most important concert halls of the world such as the Musikverein in Vienna, Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, Die Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the NHK Hall in Tokyo.
Tadić's numerous recordings can be heard in the edition of CMP Records, Enja, MA Recordings, Sony Classical, Croatia Records and many others.
Since 1979 he has lived in the United States, where he teaches music at the prestigious Academy of Arts - California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
02.00 PM
Milan Vašalić
Milan Vašalić was born on July 13, 1981 in Kikinda. He comes from a family of colonists who brought customs of the native Bosnian Krajina to the Banat flat - the village of Banatsko Veliko Selo. Milan deals with folk tradition through three segments: as an instrumentalist, choreographer and a singer. He proudly points out that he is a self-taught musician, playing on 12 archaic instruments, both string and brass. He participated in numerous festivals where he snatched from oblivion instruments such are diplo, bagpipes, different types of drum, trill and many others by playing on them. He was acknowledged for his dedication and musicianship when he won the first round of the competition program "Šljivik" broadcasted on RTS national service. He acquired the title of guardian of folk tradition in the category of playing on folk instruments.
05.00. PM:
Miroslav Tadić – Guitar workshop
August 9, 2015
01. 00 PM
Miško Plavi
Miško Plavi appeared on a new wave rock scene during the early eighties as a guitarist, bassist and keyboardist, collaborating with bands like Via Talas, D'Boys, Piloti, Ekatarina Velika and many others.
Since 2000, he has performed the programme Music around the World with which he held more than 200 concerts in Japan, where he published the album "East Loves West." He is the author of music for several Serbian, French and American films.
He uses the loop sampler pedal through which he squeezes the sound of the accordion dubbing it live for several times; this makes his performance anything but ordinary solo concert.
02.00 PM
Svetlana Spajić’s Singing Workshop
Svetlana Spajić is a Serbian traditional singer, performer, educator, cultural activist and translator. In addition to the performance of Serbian folk music, she is also known for her collaborations with international artists such as Marina Abramovič and Robert Wilson.
NGO Nimbus Art organized a workshop on Serbian traditional singing - from April to June - 12 weeks in the house of Đura Jakšić. The workshop was successfully attended by about twenty participants (17took part at the final concert) – students from Belgrade, Prijepolje, Jaša Tomić..... Serbia. The artist Svetlana Spajić, within the workshop she conducted, taught participants traditional singing, talked about traditional culture, oral traditions, folk language, about how to preserve traditional songs from oblivion; about the methods and techniques of singing, diction, pronunciation ...
The project author is Ana Janković.
