Guca Trumpet Festival

Dear visitors, From this year ,as preparation for 57th Guca festival , will be open new pre-competition centers : in Leskovac, Vladicin Han ,Knjaževac,Požega  and Prijepolje , next to the   traditional centers in Surdulica, Zlatibor and Boljevac. In Vladicin Han , town in the east of the country, precompetition of senior and junior brass orchestras will be held 29thJune 2017. Precompetition of junior and senior brass orchestras in Surdulica will be held in the period from  6th July 2017....

–56. Final competitions of trumpet orchestras– 1. Best drummer – Slavisa Stamenkovic, member of Sinsa Stanovic orchestra from Zaguzanje2. Best Bass player – Danijel Krstic, member of Sasa Pavlovic orchestra3. Best tenor player – Igor Ristic, member of Bojan Krstic orchestra from Vladicin Han4. Best played tune (song) – Sinisa Stankovic orchestra from Zaguzanje5. Best played “Kolo” (traditional circle dance) – Sasa Krstic Orchestra from Zaguzanje——————————-6. First placed orchestra – Bojan Ristic orchestra from Vladicin Han7. Second placed orchestra –...

13 August 2016 – 14H05 Serbia draws crowds for turbocharged trumpet festival © AFP | The five-day event, usually attracts around 200,000 to 300,000 music-lovers from Serbia and abroad, according to organiser Marija Pavlovic GUCA (SERBIA) (AFP) – A small town in western Serbia is hosting the world’s largest trumpet festival, a raucous annual celebration of brass bands that draws crowds of hundreds of thousands. Now in its 56th year, the Guca festival brings together dozens of Serbian bands who compete for...