Festivals

EXIT Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia | 6-9.7.2017.

In 2017. EXIT Festival will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love! “The Summer of Love symbolises the beginning of the hippie movement that changed contemporary music forever and gave birth to modern music festivals, whose aim was to fight for peace and to change the world through music and celebration of life. Similarly, EXIT was founded from the resistance youth movement that was fighting for peace and freedom in Balkans 16 years ago. It’s one of the rare active music festivals that still nurtures the legacy of the early contemporary music festivals from late 60’s and early 70t’s that first and foremost were founded because of strong social agenda. The culmination of the grand anniversary will take place at the EXIT festival, 6 – 9 July, at the Petrovaradin fortress, one of the largest ones in Europe, settled in the city of Novi Sad in the northern Serbia.

FRESH ISLAND Festival, Pag, Croatia | 11.-13.7.2017.

Fresh Island Festival is a hip hop music festival held at Zrće beach near the city of Novalja in Croatia. Founded in 2012. and usually held in mid-July the festival focuses primarily on hip hop culture along with r&b and grime. The festival takes place in 3 different venues on Zrće beach: Aquarius, Papaya and Kalypso. It also offers daily boat parties and pool parties, excursions and extreme and water sports. Since 2012 Fresh Island became the biggest hip-hop & urban beach festival in Europe featuring musicians, DJs and MCs from all over the world.

SEA DANCE Festival, Budva, Montenegro | 15.-17.7.2017.

Over 20,000 foreign tourists form over 50 countries, with more than 200 international and regional media representatives, were this year in Montenegro for third Sea Dance Festiva. In 2017. Expectations are even higher and festival will be opened in a spectacular fashion. The largest amount of visitors will arrive from Western Europe, most of which are visiting Montenegro for the first time.

LOVE FEST, Vrnjacka Banja, Serba | 3.-5.8.2017.

Lovefest will once again prove that it is one of the 10 best European festivals. Aside from a great line up on four music Stages, this year you can also expect unbelievable scenography which will additionally make the impression of being at a magic place far from reality. Visit Lovefest, and find out why this festival has over night become a European sensation with more than 70.000 visitors.

GUCA TRUMPET FESTIVAL, Guca, Serbia | 10.-12.8.2017.

The Guča Trumpet Festival also known as the Dragačevski Sabor , is an annual brass band festival held in the town of Guča, near the city of Čačak. Every year 600,000 visitors make their way to the town of 2,000 inhabitants every year, both from Serbia and abroad. Elimination heats are held earlier in the year and only a few dozen bands qualify to compete. Guča’s official festival has three parts, Friday’s opening concert, Saturday night’s celebrations and Sunday’s competition. The Friday’s concerts are held at the entrance to the official Guča Festival building.

BEER FEST, Belgrade, Serbia | 16.-20.8.2017.

Belgrade Beer Fest is on average, the biggest beer festival in Southeastern Europe. Within 5 days, over 500.000 people visit the festival. The large number of visitors is mostly due to basic festival principles: free entrance, an exceptional music program, and a wide range of foreign and domestic beer brands. Belgrade Beer Fest was founded in year 2003. In thirteen years of its existence over 7.2 million visitors could have seen more than 570 music performances, tasted more than 300 beer brands and participated in numerous social campaigns.