Events

Guca Festival – Trumpeters’ Festival

48. Guca Festival 06.08-10.08.2008

Welcome to the celebration of the trumpet!

The Guca Festival is a celebration of trumpeters’ music.Authentic Serbian noisy atmosphere at the world’s greatest festival dedicated to the Trumpet.

About the festival

The festival is the proof of tradition in Serbia. There have been 47 festivals since 1961. The interest in this world class festival has been increasing over the years. The festival includes cultural and art programs, self-taught artists, ethnological nad historical exhibitions, and sports competitions in traditional disciplines. Organizers’ wish for the festival is that it becomes an international trumpet competition. About 100 orchestras go through pre-selection, and only 40 best seniors, youth and pioneer orchestras take part in the finals. There were only 4 trumpet orchestras from Dragacevo at the first Guca Festival, the rest is history...

Venue: Dragacevo, Serbia

Number of visitors: 600,000

Attractions

Weddings in the festival environment.
There are many specialties of Serbian cuisine and its equivalent festivals such as proja (a type of corn bread), cheese, kajmak (a dairy dish), svadbarski kupus (a vegetable dish), barbecue, or slivovitz (plum brandy). And all of this can be tasted by old and new friends of the festival in homes and at festival booths because the Guca Festival is the greatest festivity of the people of Dragacevo.

Don`t miss that.

The winner of the 47th Guca Festival

Orchestra: Demiran Cemirovic from Vranje

Golden Trumpet Award: Ekrem Mamutovic of Nenada Mladenovic’s Orchestra
Second Award: Dejana Lazarevic’s Orchestra from Požega
People’s Choice Award “First Trumpet”: Dejan Lazarevic
Third Award: Veljko Ostojic’s Orchestra from Zlakusa
Miss Guca Olja Vujovic from Cacak