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UNITED STATES OF BALKANS IS OUR DREAM

When you listen to an hour and a half of ska, reggae and rap spiced with familiar Balkan sound, Roma melodies and pop evergreens, when crowds dance to songs by Goran Bregovic and Manu Chao,... Borders don’t mean anything

Mountaineers are artists in quest for beauty

Mountaineers are artists in quest for beauty

Starry skies rise high above the mountain. With each passing second the stars seem to move further away from us, but closer for the group of mountaineers who are climbing on the mountain. With each...

“Turks and Greeks, as well as other neighbors are – indeed also literally – brothers”

“Turks and Greeks, as well as other neighbors are – indeed also literally – brothers”

Periklis Tsoukalas from BaBa ZuLa on interview for Balkon3 The BaBa ZuLa concert! Not just an event, but every time an holistic artistic experience, a “audio-visual feast” as the band themselves say. BaBa ZuLa represent...

Ljubojna: The whole world grew out of folklore, even the craziest creations!

Ljubojna: The whole world grew out of folklore, even the craziest creations!

Interview with Vera Milosevska and Oli Josifovski of Ljubojna: The popular myth about Macedonia where “don’t dance or sing in Macedonia as you will be out sang or out danced” is no longer valid. The... The audiences love to feel elated

Balkon3 interview with Rabih Abou Khalil: Bridging Cultural Divides

Balkon3 interview with Rabih Abou Khalil: Bridging Cultural Divides

“When people speak about multiculturalism, it has never been different since humans left Africa and spread throughout the world. There is no pure culture. Anyone who thinks there is a pure culture… that is a... Jazz is a meeting of Africa and Europe

Balkon3 interview with Zoran Predin – “The second wife in the harem”

Balkon3 interview with Zoran Predin – “The second wife in the harem”

The career of one of the best known and most popular Slovenian musicians, Zoran Predin, is anything but monotonous and dull. The audiences know Predin as a main author and front man for Lačni Franz...

Little Paco de Lucia from Strumica Conquers Europe

This is a story about a guitar “desperado” from Strumica. Although Stojan Stojanov is just 12 years old, he has climbed the throne of many prestigious European competitions with his guitar. With only a few...

Miroslav Tadic – А Sign of the Growing Popularity of this Music

Miroslav Tadic – А Sign of the Growing Popularity of this Music

Miroslav Tadic is a virtuoso guitarist and a professor at the prestigious Cal Arts University in US, but he is even better known as the other half in the now famous guitar duet with renowned Macedonian guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski....

Stian Westerhus: Playing with Sidsel is Just a Dream

Stian Westerhus: Playing with Sidsel is Just a Dream

Guitarist Stian Westerhus is both unpredictable and changeable, and he is a sonic sculptor whose music is instilled with an intoxicating, otherworldly mystique. Situated between free improve, the expressionism of electric free jazz and electronic,...

Skopje Jazz Festival is a magical festival

Skopje Jazz Festival is a magical festival

Interview with Ziga Koritnik, official photographer of Skopje Jazz Festival. The world of jazz wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for the photography that portrayed its iconography. It seems that both jazz and photography...

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