The Dukes of Prunes is a continuation of the project that Boštjan Andrejc and Samo Turk started at the Koper School of Music, when they and selected students put together a larger band that performed the repertoire from Frank Zappa's opus. 25 years after the death of this elusive artist, they gathered a new band, with which they prepared a striking repertoire from Zappa's extensive oeuvre.
Ljubljana Castle
Spring 2018. Coast. The girls, musicians by heart and profile, came up with the idea of a big band. The boys, locals from Marezig, came to their aid with a space for rehearsals, first notes and experience. The internationally renowned saxophonist Lovro Ravbar took over the artistic direction of the newly formed big band, and the group of "bandits and bandits" has been creating together for a good half year.
Drummer jazz legend Ratko Divjak made a strong impression on the music scene both in Slovenia and abroad. He has a varied career behind him, which he started in a rock band and then continued in jazz.
The Papir ensemble is a rainbow of people who came together to simply make beautiful songs - songs that will mean something to this world and will delight it for a long time with their melodies and stories.
Band Las Cuerdas plays different genres of music in a fun, Latin American style.
Tadej Toš will present 14 of Prešeren's songs with his quartet.
A group of top artists from West Africa is coming to Jazz Club Ljubljana Castle. They all come from distinctly artistic families or clans, which have a leading place in the arts, especially in music and dance, in African cultural history and also in today's society. They are called griots.
Saxophonist Lovro Ravbar certainly belongs to the very top of the Slovenian music scene and does not limit himself to strict stylistic guidelines.
Andraž Hribar will present himself with a special program at the Jazz Club at the Ljubljana Castle. Accompanied by a jazz band, in addition to his own compositions, he will also sing and play hits from the rich American treasury of soul, RnB and funk.
On Friday, the festive lights were switched on in the capital and also at the Ljubljana Castle, and the events of the Castle in December 2018 began. They have prepared quite a few events that will conjure up a festive atmosphere: from concerts in the Ljubljana Castle Jazz Club, dancing, the castle's holiday fair and performances for children until Christmas Holy Mass, nativity scene, exhibitions, 3D mapping...
Akordika draws music from classical and modern musicals, but not with the intention of dressing more or less well-known melodies in yet another guise, but because they hide an all-too-often overlooked depth.
Enoch Jamal "EJ" Strickland is a world-renowned drummer and composer, an artist who can be heard on more than 60 albums over the past ten years.











