I want to go to Guca
3 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Monday, October 23 at Monday, October 23, 2006.
I had one of the best weeks of my life in August at the Sziget festival in Budapest, and one of the highlights of the whole 7 day festival was experiencing the amazing "Serbian Brass" music - hypnotic, frenetic, exhilirating, dizzyingly alive music, as evocative of the Balkan energy and passion as you can imagine. Boban Markovic was one of the opening acts of the festival, and he and his band were absolute madmen, and the huge crowd went absolutely nuts. A few days later was Goran Bregovic, who took the whole thing to a different level, with beautiful singing and hypnotic melodies, fast and slow. Two absolutely amazing performers, and I have to admit, I never would have imagined enjoying two concerts of Serbian trumpet music as much as I did.
At the time, someone there told me about a festival in Serbia where people from all over the country and region descend on a small country town, with all the great players and bands showing up and competing, over three days, to win the prize as the best brass band on earth. It sounded cool at the time, and I totally forgot about it.
Today, I was reading Nikola's blog, and he has a post up all about it - the Guca festival. He linked through to a trailer for a new film documentary about the whole thing - check it out, not only does the documentary look awesome, but the sound took me back to the concerts in the first moment of hearing it, and I doubt that anyone will not be hooked on the amazing sounds being played.
"Guca, a film by Milivojilic" (starring, among others, my man Boban Markovic). Click the "trailer" tab on the left to see the preview...
I can't wait to be there......
At the time, someone there told me about a festival in Serbia where people from all over the country and region descend on a small country town, with all the great players and bands showing up and competing, over three days, to win the prize as the best brass band on earth. It sounded cool at the time, and I totally forgot about it.
Today, I was reading Nikola's blog, and he has a post up all about it - the Guca festival. He linked through to a trailer for a new film documentary about the whole thing - check it out, not only does the documentary look awesome, but the sound took me back to the concerts in the first moment of hearing it, and I doubt that anyone will not be hooked on the amazing sounds being played.
"Guca, a film by Milivojilic" (starring, among others, my man Boban Markovic). Click the "trailer" tab on the left to see the preview...
I can't wait to be there......
Well, you definitely should... That festival is indeed a complete madness! Non-stop music for almost a full week, day and night... And not only during the competition - whole place is full of open restaurants and trumpet orchestra entertaining people... Seriously, if you liked Boban Markovic, you would/will love this festival...
Anyways, official website is www.guca2006.com and unofficial website with bunch of photo galleries from previous years you can find at www.guca.co.yu. Both have english versions...
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C4%8Da_trumpet_festival
Cheers,
Nino
Cheers Nino,
I'm so down for this. I will totally be in Serbia for the week of Aug 6 to Aug 12 2007.
Hi Guys,
There seems to be some confusion out there about the film or films of Guca which I am going to try and clear up. The narrative film of Guca is 'Guca2006' the documentary feature film of Guca is called 'Guca' and can be found at www.gucafilm.com.
Enjoy
Milivoj