The sun has already woken up from its winter sleep. Flowers are blooming. Birds are chirping. We are also waking up. We are waiting for summer. Fun. Festivals. These are the 2018 music festivals you shouldn't miss.
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Opinions about music concerts have always been divided: for some, it is a place of jostling, squeezing and boisterousness, while for others it is heaven on earth. Those of you who like to visit will be surprised by the results of this study. Those who don't like concerts, maybe you will love them.
The world-renowned stars, cellists 2CELLOS, announce their return to Slovenia after sold-out concerts on the world's most prestigious stages, such as the Royal Albert Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks and many others. A few weeks ago, they released the single Perfect, a hit by Ed Sheeran, and in March this year they will hold three more concerts in the region, namely in Arena Zagreb, Spaladium Arena in Split and Zetra in Sarajevo. This will be followed by a Canadian and European tour, which will end with a large all-Slovenian exclusive open air concert on June 29 in Koper.
The Belgrade kings of rock and roll Partibrejkers, led by the indestructible frontman Canet, are returning to Šiška, where two years ago they held a superb party to promote the album Sirotinjsko carstvo. The younger generation of Serbian rock and roll will be represented by the plucky trio Vizelj with that special charm that distinguished Šarlo Akrobata and early Azra.
The world-renowned gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello will stop in Slovenia as part of the Seekers and Finders tour. On June 2nd, she will perform in Koper, and everyone who has ever attended their concert knows that their music is danced until the early hours of the morning.
From March 29 to April 28 this year, the 19th Orto Fest will take place. As many as 21 local and 7 foreign music groups and performers will perform at Orto Fest this year, and it is extremely colorful this year as well. Among others, you will be able to see groups and performers: Hamo & Tribute 2 Love (SLO), Laibach (SLO), Jinx (HR), Gutalax (CZ), Slon in Sadež (SLO), Klemen Klemen (SLO), Adi Smolar (SLO), Panda (SLO), Zmelkoow (SLO), The Toasters (USA), Flirrt (SLO), Zlatko in Optimisti (SLO) and, to close the festival, Omar Naber & Band (SLO).
Post-punk revivalists The National are coming to Zagreb on July 10, 2018. This will be their fifth concert in Zagreb and ninth concert in Croatia. It is obvious that they have a real romance with this city and country. This time they will perform as part of the 5th edition of the SuperUho festival.
The Game, a rapper who goes by the Dr. Dre, and as a member of 50 Cent's famous G-Unit, at the turn of the millennium, with his debut album The Documentary, he put the hip-hop throne back on the American West Coast, and the musician who crossed the microphone with all the biggest names in modern rap - from Eminem to Kendrick Lamar - is releasing a new album 45 and coming to Slovenia for the first time. He will be preceded by the multiple national freestyle champion, Unknown from Ljubljana.
On March 30, the Electric Poppy electronic music festival will stop in Ljubljana. The famous DJ and producer Afrojack will perform at the Electric Poppy 2018 electronic music festival.
Under the slogan XO - Let's Play House aka "We miss House!", Slovenia will be visited for the first time by Sonny Fodera, a prominent protégé of the labels Defected, Suara, Cajual, DirtyBird and Visionquest, a favorite of the Hideout and Defected festivals in our region, and his playground is also in clubs, such as London's Ministry of Sound, Ibiza's Sankeys, Ushuaia, DC-10, Amnesia and Eden, Space Miami, Exchange LA and Air Amsterdam.
Čompe, translated into artistic language, is nothing more than a dialect term for potato, which is used in Trenta and Ziljska dolina. A Čompe is also a six-member band that has been on the scene for 24 years. If you may not be familiar with them, now is the time. And you have this opportunity right at the 24th anniversary concert.
When we Europeans were still sleeping soundly this morning, on the other side of the "puddle" they were awarding the Grammy music awards, the 60th in a row. The award was held in Madison Square Garden in New York, and the host was actor and comedian James Corden for the second year in a row.