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Slovakia’s Pohoda Festival Begins This Week

2011-07-05 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Nourish my fame

For those visiting Slovakia this week, the open air Pohoda Music Festival kicks off on this Thursday 7, July – Saturday the 9th of July. One of the largest such events in Slovakia, the festival features alternative music, rock, pop, dance music, world music, house, techno, drum and bass, hip hop, and even dance and literature workshops.

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Exit Fest 2011 – Serbia Rocks for All Europe

2011-07-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Dance Arena - Courtesy Exit Fest Flickr aspect

Summer is music festival time across Europe, but nowhere more prominently than at Serbia’s Exit Festival. Beginning next Thursday, July 7th, through Sunday July 10th, Novi Sad, Serbia will be the center of Europe’s music universe. The biggest festival of sound in South Eastern Europe, kicks off at the wondrous Petrovaradin fortress in Novi Sad.

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Summertime Festivals in Serbia

2011-05-07 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Manu Dibango at the Nisville Jazz Festival

Serbia isn’t nearly as popular as some of its Balkan cousins when it comes to travel, something which is often difficult to fathom why. Granted, Serbia lacks the beaches of its near-neighbor Croatia, and then there is the stigma of the country being the target of not one, but two NATO air strike campaigns just […]

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