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Active since 1996, Kultur Shock combines Balkan folk music with punk, metal and art rock. [1] Its members hail from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and the United States. [ 2 ] The band has released 13 albums and had performed over 1,500 shows throughout the United States and Europe. [ 3 ]
The first day of the festival always features a performance by the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, which is attended by numerous city and canton politicians. [citation needed] A concert by popular Bosnian singer Dino Merlin concluded the festival in 2000. It was held in Stadium Koševo and was sold out.
Punk rock entered Bosnia from Slovenia, and it set roots in Sarajevo, Tuzla, and Mostar. Rock music was most dominant in Bosnia and Herzegovina out of all the states in Yugoslavia. Bijelo Dugme was probably the most legendary and influential band of the Balkans. During the late 1990s and the early 2000s many new bands have formed.
[1] [2] It was established in 2011 by the Sarajevo Music Academy in cooperation with the Sarajevo Chamber Music Institute (SCMI) and the Manhattan String Quartet. [3] [4] The festival lasts for 6 days and hosts over 30 international ensembles, lecturers and composers per edition. [5] It is the largest chamber music festival in the Balkans. [6] [7]
The Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Sarajevska filharmonija / Сарајевска филхармонија) is an orchestra in Sarajevo. [ 1 ] Its first concert was performed on 24 October 1923, with the program being Lisinski 's overture from the opera Porin ; Mendelssohn 's Piano Concerto No. 1 ; Beethoven 's ...
It was established by the Music Arts Foundation and is held in May. [1] UNESCO has said of this and related events, "These festivals have special programme profiles, long tradition and good production and organization conditions," and that they have "special importance for the culture of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnia." [2]
SCH represents one of the most significant names in the field of alternative rock music in the former Yugoslavia. Radio Student Ljubljana's Igor Bašin has noted: "As Ljubljana's got Laibach and Belgrade's got EKV and Disciplina Kičme alias Šarlo Akrobata, thus Sarajevo's got SCH. SCH is the key-name of the Sarajevo Alternative Scene."