Guča Trumpet Festival
The Guca Trumpet Festival , actually exhibition of Dragacevo in Guca ( Serbian Dragačevski sabor u Guči ), the largest of its kind in Europe and one of the most important musical events of Southeast Europe and the largest in Serbia .
The festival
The festival takes place every year for three days and nights, always in August, in Guča in Moravica and attracts several hundred thousand visitors from home and abroad. In 2009 the festival reached a record of over 500,000 visitors.
A special feature and crowd puller of this festival are the countless unofficial, unplanned and spontaneous performances by the artists on the streets and in the restaurants and beer tents of Guča. Here, the musicians usually play against direct payment from innkeepers or from the audience: Most of the time, the artists put money into the instruments or stuck them to the sweaty forehead.
history
The first Dragačevo Trumpet Festival took place under simple conditions in 1961, in the courtyard of the local Orthodox Church, when only four trumpet orchestras participated. The idea for the festival came from the journalist Blagoje Radivojević. The writer Branko B. Radičević came up with the motto “Great Folk Fair from Ovčar to Kablar ”. With the participation of many musicians and the daily Večernje novosti , the idea of a trumpet festival was finally implemented. Because the trumpet is one of the most important musical instruments in Serbian and Southeast European folk music. In 1335 a trumpeter Dragan from Prizren was mentioned in Dubrovnik . Serbian church frescoes from the late Middle Ages also show trumpeters. In the 19th century the trumpet experienced a rebirth in Serbia, first as part of military music, later it was generally integrated into folk music. Smaller music orchestras are an integral part of Serbian family celebrations and celebrations, and it is in this spirit that the first trumpet orchestras emerged.
Today, most trumpet orchestras are de facto made up of professional musicians who wander from one celebration to the next and earn a living in this way. Accordingly, the Guča Trumpet Festival has grown far beyond the folk and folklore and also serves the orchestras to present themselves and their skills. Apart from the awards, u. a. the golden trumpet, beckons fame at home and abroad. The number of visitors and participants grew over time.
reception
Several films have already been dedicated to the festival: the documentary Guča (2005), the feature film Gucha! (Distant Trumpet) (2006) with Marko Markovic in the lead role and the documentary now playing My friends Serbs Music (2006), the journey of the Landshut Orchestra No foreplay facing Guca.
Footnotes
- ↑ Die Zeit of August 14, 2014, p. 8.
Web links
Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 35 ″ N , 20 ° 13 ′ 55 ″ E