"Shoegaze" legends The Jesus and Mary Chain are coming to Kino Šiška. With their dreamy pop structures, they sowed the seeds of this genre in the 1980s and changed alternative rock forever. We will be able to listen to them at the Šiška Cinema on July 5.
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The famous British soprano Sarah Brightman is coming to Slovenia for the first time, and she will delight all classical music lovers. As part of the Royal Christmas Gala tour, the international artist and her musical guests will hold a festive concert, enriched with luxurious lighting effects and superb production. We will be able to listen to them in Ljubljana's Dvorana Stožice on December 22.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra is exactly what you imagine under the name. An orchestra playing instruments made of vegetables. Their musicians do not use classical instruments, but different instruments. Did we mention that the vegetable orchestra sounds surprisingly good and that they serve you vegetable soup after the concert?
Next week, the group Jardier will take the stage at the Channel Zero club in Metelkova as part of their performances in Slovenia. This time they will invite Daniel Vezoja, who just this year released his first record entitled Where the Light Resides.
In 2015, the Slovenian music group Laibach plowed the field when they became the first foreign group to perform in the otherwise hermetically sealed North Korea. On May 1, 2017, with a concert at the Jeonju Film Festival in South Korea, they will become the first rock band to perform in both Koreas.
The elder of the regional rap scene, Edo Maajka, who has been writing one of the most successful musical stories in the Balkans, not only in his native Bosnia, since the beginning of his solo career at the turn of the millennium, is returning to Kino Šiška. At this performance, he will be accompanied live by world-class musicians, and the repertoire will also be spiced up with songs from the upcoming new album.
The Star Time Playboys are an instrumental trio whose music combines country jazz, western swing, rockabilly, surf rock and jump blues. They are the brainchild of the young twenty-two-year-old guitarist Urban Zotl, who is rhythmically supported by his brothers Grega (drums) and Boštjan Copek (double bass).
Mona Haydar is an American hip-hopper of Syrian descent who released her first hip-hop single Hijabi and made a music video for it, celebrating Muslim women who wear the traditional head covering.
The 'space cowboys' Jamiroquai are coming our way. With music, a mixture of many styles from funk, soul, R&B, jazz, disco, they have repeatedly occupied the top places of the music charts. We will be able to listen to them in Vienna on November 15, where they are coming on the wings of the new album Automaton.
The mystical Icelandic band Sigur Rós is coming to Croatia on October 20, specifically to Zagreb, where they will perform for the first time. This will be their premiere performance in Croatia, and they performed in Slovenia for the first and only time in 2012 in Maribor, when they presented the then current album Valtari. They are coming to Zagreb as part of the European tour An Evening with Sigur Rós. This will be their only concert in the region.
During the school holidays, 17-year-old Tiffany visited Italy with the school choir, where they sang in many cathedrals. But then she came across a fountain with exceptional acoustics in Venice and couldn't resist the opportunity. She sang Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah into it and the recording went around the world. When you hear her performance, you will immediately understand why.
The pop-up festival Kurzschluss is coming to Ljubljana on April 14. The first guest of this year's edition will be Luciano, a global megastar, festival star and long-awaited winner of five Best DJ Awards.