18. INTERNATIONAL BAGPIPE FESTIVAL IN CROATIA

18. MEĐUNARODNI GAJDAŠKI FESTIVAL

18. international bagpipe festival 2024.

The festival will be held from September 27 to 28, 2024 in Zagreb and Mihovljan and will be dedicated to women who play traditional musical instruments.

Date nad place

27.09.2024. – ZAGREB, Ethnographic museum Zagreb

28.09.2024. – MIHOVLJAN, Home of culture

Festival participants:

ONDREY I LUCKA TRYHUK (ČEŠKA)
HANKA BUREŠOVA (ČEŠKA)
PATRIK REDINA (ČEŠKA)
FILIZ ILKAY (TURSKA)
PEK DUDAS ZSUZSI (MAĐARSKA)
HAJNALKA FOGARASSY (MAĐARSKA)
NADIA VASQUEZ-MARTINEZ (ŠPANJOLSKA)
GATALINKA VINKOVCI (HRVATSKA)
HRVATSKI GAJDAŠKI ORKESTAR (HRVATSKA)
MARICA FILIPOVIĆ (BIH)
TONNTA CEOIL (IRSKA)

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

27.09.2024. – ZAGREB, Ethnographic museum

– 17:00 – presentation of Croatian traditional bagpipe instruments

– 18:00 – presentation of Erasmus+ ”The Network of European Bagpipers” project resalts

– 19:00 – CONCERT

28.09.2024. – MIHOVLJAN

– introducing festival participants to Croatian folk tradition

– visit to the workshop of Croatian traditional instruments (Večković)

– 19:00 – CONCERT in Home of culture

The organizer of the festival is the Centre of Croatian traditional instruments, founded and led by Stjepan Večković, soloist on traditional musical instruments in the LADO Ensemble, founder and leader of the Croatian Bagpipe Orchestra, maker of traditional musical instruments, leader of seminars and workshops on traditional musical instruments.

Support: Ministarstvo kulture i medija RH, Grad Zagreb, HDS-ZAMP

Creating new friendships, sharing knowledge and experience.

The International Bagpipe Festival in Croatia is a place to create new friendships, share experience and knowledge, and share and get to know other traditions and cultures.

STJEPAN VEČKOVIĆ

Stjepan Večković is a multi-talented artist. He makes and plays many traditional Croatian musical instruments, and he restored many forgotten musical instruments. He organizes and leads seminars and workshops on making and playing traditional musical instruments. He writes and publishes books about traditional musical instruments. He is the editor and host of a popular radio show about Croatian tradition. He is also engaged in painting. He founded and manages the Centre of Croatian Traditional Musical Instruments, the Croatian Bagpipe Orchestra and the International Bagpipe Festival.

He is employed as a soloist on traditional instruments in the Croatian professional folklore ensemble Lado.

BAGPIPES IN CROATIA

Croatian traditional culture is extremely rich. A large part of it is traditional musical instruments. There are at least ten types of bagpipes in Croatia. Some are over several thousand years old. The youngest of them (bagpipes from Slavonia and Baranja, which are parts of Croatia) are at least 800 years old.