The largest trumpet event on the planet coming to US

The small village of Guca, peaceful and colorful part of western Serbia, has gained world fame owing to its Assembly of Trumpet Players, the largest trumpet event on the planet. From October this year, Guca Festival coming to US. We`ll see the winning bands each year, and hear a different way of trumpet playing. "I didn`t know you could play trumpet that way"- Miles Davis, a Guca Festival visit. End Quote

Chicago, IL (1888PressRelease) May 10, 2013 - The first Guca Festival was held on October 16th, 1961 in Guca village in Serbia. However, Guca Festival gradually grew and expanded its, one might say, magical influence, and become the world`s biggest trumpet festival, with more then 500,000 visitors last year. Guca Festival is taking place in August every year.

The sound of the trumpet traditionally accompanies every major event in Serbia`s rural and small town life: births, baptisms, weddings, Slava (family patron saint day), state and church festivals, harvesting. The music is very diverse: from indigenous melodies, via kolo (a fast rhythm chain dance), marches and characteristic southern Serbian cocek dances, all the way to tunes that have emerged more recently, but always taking care to honor old harmonies. The music has won over the hearts of not only the local population, but has also warmed the hearts of outsiders and foreigners. In the several days of the Guca Festival, hardly anyone can resist giving themselves to the adrenalin-rushing rhythms and melodies that simply force one to jump to ones feet and dance.

Many international recognized musician perform at Guca Festival, some of them are: Goran Bregovic and his band, Boban Markovic Orchestra, Emir Kusturica. In the past years Guca Festival has some famous visitors: Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia (2001), Kiera Chaplin - granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin (2005), Miles Davis who said "I didn`t know you could play trumpet that way".

From this year Balkan Style Concert (Houston, TX) became the official promoter of Guca Festival Winning Band Tour in United States and Canada. The Guca Festival winning band will perform in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and Vancuver, in period October/November, 2013.

To find out who`s winning band this year, and see other news from Balkan`s music industry follow us on www.facebook.com/BalkanStyleConcert. Get ready for a new experience: Guca Festival - Serbian Woodstock, An Untold Story.

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