GuÄa Trumpet Festival
The Guca Trumpet Festival, actually fair of Dragacevo in Guca (Serbian Dragačevski sabor Guči u ), is one of the most important musical events in Southeast Europe and the largest in Serbia. It takes place every year for three days and nights, usually in the month of August, in Guca in the Moravica and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from home and abroad. In 2009, the festival had a record of over 500,000 visitors.
The first Trumpet Festival of Dragacevo found under simple conditions took place in 1961, in the yard of the local Orthodox Church, as only attended four trumpet orchestra. The idea for the festival was the journalist Blagoje Radivojević. The writer Branko B. Radičević devised the slogan " Great People's Fair of Ovčar to Kablar ". With the participation of many musicians as well as the daily newspaper Večernje novosti the idea of a trumpet festival was finally realized. Over time, the visitors and participants grew and today the number of Guca trumpet festival is the largest of its kind in Europe and one of the most important music festivals in Serbia. A special and crowds of the festival are the countless unofficial unreinforced and spontaneous appearances of artists on the streets and in restaurants and beer tents of Guca. Here, the musicians play mostly direct payment of innkeepers or from the audience: In most cases, the artists bills are put into the instruments or stuck to the sweaty forehead.
History
The trumpet is one of the most important musical instruments of Serbian as ever South Eastern European folk music. 1335 a trumpet player Dragan from Prizren was mentioned in Dubrovnik. Serbian Church frescoes from the late Middle Ages also show trumpeter. In the 19th century the trumpet experienced a rebirth in Serbia, first as part of military music, it was later integrated in initial folk music.
Smaller musical orchestra are an integral part of Serbian family gatherings and celebrations and in this sense he also wrote his first trumpet orchestra. Today, most trumpet orchestra set de facto composed of professional musicians who move from one party to the next and so earn their livelihood. Accordingly, the trumpet of Guca Festival is grown far beyond the Folk and Folklore, and serves the orchestras also to present themselves and their skills. Apart from the victories premiums, including the golden trumpet, waving fame at home and abroad.
Reception
The festival has already devoted several films: the documentation of Guca (2005), the feature film Gucha! (Distant Trumpet ) (2006 ) with Marko Markovic in the lead role as well as the documentary My friends now play music Serbs ( 2006), which shows the journey of the Landshut Orchestra No foreplay after Guca.