Kotor Cable Car series: Cambi Klapa, Urban & 4 and Vlatko Stefanovski Trio

The International KotorArt Festival, in cooperation with the representatives of the new tourist attraction of Montenegro, the Kotor-Lovćen cable car, organizes the Kotor Cable Car series, with performances of the Cambi Klapa, Urban & 4 and the Vlatko Stefanovski Trio.

On Wednesday, July 19, the famous Dalmatian Cambi Klapa will perform for all the admirers of klapa singing. The Urban & 4 concert, led by the charismatic Damir Urban, is scheduled for Wednesday, August 2, while the very next day, Thursday, August 3, the famous guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski will appear with his trio.

After a several years break, when we as a Festival had a limited number of audience members due to the consequences of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19, we are bringing back a series of programs featuring popular music. We owe a debt of gratitude to our new friends, the Kotor-Lovćen cable car, which as a golden sponsor of the Festival this year has made a great contribution to the realization of our programs. To the great delight of the audience, concerts by the Cambi Klapa, the Urban & 4 group and the Vlatko Stefanovski Trio await us – the PR department of the Festival pointed out.

For two decades, KotorArt has been adding a special, sophisticated nuance to the authenticity of Kotor with the quality of its programs. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that we have accepted to support such a renowned Festival. The values that KotorArt implements and promotes year after year, coincide with the vision and values that Cable Car and its accompanying content will try to incorporate into the area we are targeting. Blending into an authentic ambience, but also a sustainable, delicate upgrade are, in a broader sense, our joint efforts. Bearing in mind the quality of this year’s program, KotorArt will undoubtedly be a center of high culture this summer and an indispensable part of the positive impressions that numerous visitors will carry from Montenegro, announced from the Kotor Cable Car.

Tickets for KotorArt concerts will be available from Friday, June 9 at the Gigs Tix website www.gigstix.me and throughout Montenegro, at selected Tobacco S Press locations.

The members of the Cambi Klapa are tenors Eduard Šegota, Jozo Delaš and Duško Britvić, baritone Mislav Biočina, bass-baritone Hrvoje Lozančić and bass Dino Šimera. Klapa was founded in 1986 and became known to a wider audience in 1991 with their first performance in Omiš at the Dalmatian Klapa Festival. With each of their superb performances, the Cambi Klapa, singing traditional Dalmatian and pop songs, has succeeded in realizing the harmony of the Dalmatian musical heritage and contemporary musical trends. The Klapa has managed in doing so thanks to the freshness and originality, to equally suggestive performances of traditional standards of Dalmatian songs, as well as unique interpretations of pop-rock opus by Zlatan Stipisić Gibonni, and other well-known authors. The Cambi Klapa deserves full attention as the only klapa crossover product suitable for the new century in which it brings the best experiences of klapa tradition, but also the sensibility of pop stars aware of the present time and space alike.

Damir Urban is an independent artist, primarily engaged in music, and occasionally in painting and acting. His rich career includes more than ten original albums released during the years of work in the Laufer band, as well as those released during his independent career. In the last few years, he has been intensively collaborating with Ante Gelo. This collaboration has resulted in the concert album titled Urban&4 & Zagreb Philharmonic Live at Lisinski, which has won three Porin Awars. In the same year, the song Iskra received the Porin Award for the best group performance with vocals, as well as for the best song of the year. Members of the Urban & 4 group are singer and guitarist Damir Urban, guitarist Luka Toman, Sandi Bratonja – bass, acoustic guitar and accordion, Saša Markovski keyboards and drummer Marko Bradashia.

Vlatko Stefanovski foto cop. Željka Dimić.jpg

Vlatko Stefanovski, a Macedonian guitarist, started to play at the age of thirteen. As young, he founded the Leb i sol band, which became one of the most significant groups on the musical scene of the former Yugoslavia, and with which he recorded fourteen albums and had tours all over the world. During the nineties of the 20th century, Stefanovski built a successful solo career, as confirmed by the albums Cowboys & Indians, Sarajevo, Vlatko Stefanovski trio, and Kula od karti. The collaboration with a well-known guitarist Miroslav Tadić on the albums Krushevo, Treta majka, Live in Belgrade and Live in Zagreb, cast a new light on his oeuvre for acoustic guitar and research of the Macedonian traditional music. Vlatko Stefanovski also writes music for film, theater and ballet. At this year’s KotorArt, he performs with bass guitarist Ivan Kukić and drummer Jan Stefanovski.

The KotorArt International Festival is held with the patronage of UNESCO, the Ministry of Culture and Media and the Municipality of Kotor, the support of the European Union, as well as the support of eminent sponsors and a wide network of partners from the country and abroad. Additional information about the planned festival programs can be found on the Festival’s website www.kotor.art.

Photo: Saša Burić, Željka Dimić