Guča Festival

Small town of Western Serbia, the center of  Dragačevo district – Guča, is the place where the  biggest folk event in Serbia has been held. At the same time Guča has been the most famous festival of trumpet and brass music in the world. The fame of this region, but also Serbia has brought through all the continents. Soon after the first festival, which had a local character, Guča became a synonym for a brass instruments and playing at the festival was reserved only for true masters. Trumpet players were needed the festival, and the festival needed them. This mutual love relationship launched into the stars of world glory players – Mića Petrović, Fejat Sejdić, Boban Marković, Elvis Ajdinović, Dejan Petrović and many other masters of the trumpet. Goran Bregovic, together with Emir Kusturica, made the turning point for the transition of the Serbian trumpet music on the world scene in 1995, after the Golden Palm award for the masterpiece, in cinematic and musical sense –  Underground movie. The rest is history…

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