Druga Godba is well known for bringing to Ljubljana leading artists from different backgrounds and musical traditions who draw inspiration from different traditional folk musics and are committed to creative musical exploration. The line-up is sometimes even ahead of world trends. You won’t get much sleep, but that’s the point.
After last year’s very successful jubilee year, Druga Godba is entering its fifth decade. Even in its mature years, the festival remains as watchful as ever, always on the lookout for the most talented and creative musicians from all over the world. It’s not scared to cross social, geographical or cultural-political borders, and to show that artists do not, as a rule, inhabit a comfort zone, but use different creative approaches and types of live performance to celebrate and honour their homelands, ancestors and role models, and strive for a more open and accessible future. Each one of them adds a new tile to the mosaic of planetary sound.
The programme committee’s mission is to recognise those sounds in all their uniqueness and originality, and to create a programme that allows the audience to follow all of them, while writing their own festival story and leading their own festival life. This year, Druga Godba will be coming at you with twelve concerts at five venues over three days. What can we expect? For a start, twelve very different performances. Some of them will get you up and dancing, while others will have a quiet(er) depth that makes you stop and think. A choice selection of dynamic, refined, handcrafted sounds from four continents and eighteen countries – a snapshot perhaps of the best the musical practices of our times have to offer, backed (as always) by a wide-ranging and varied set of supporting events. We are very much looking forward to sharing all this with you.
Weaving together sound, unusual stories and an otherness of spirit that is all too often missing in today’s intense world, Druga Godba invites you to stop for just a moment and listen, and to dance with an open heart.
Druga Godba 2025 programme
Altın Gün (NL/TR)
Aïta Mon Amour (MA/TN)
Flèche Love (CH/DZ)
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: Mestizx (BO/PR)
Los Sara Fontán (ES)
Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus (NO)
Moving as a Giant (SI)
Nika Prusnik & bratje Poljanec (SI)
Saagara (IN/PL)
Sahra Halgan (Somaliland)
Songhoy Blues (ML)
Sutari feat. Ana Kravanja & Samo Kutin (PL/SI)
Events will be held at Kino Šiška, Cankarjev Dom, Vodnikova Domačija, Klub Gromka
For full programme click here.
Text and image from www.drugagodba.si/
