Javorca - Dawn of Peace

We invite you to Javorca for a sunrise concert. The event entitled Javorca – Dawn of Peace will be held on Saturday, August 8, at the Memorial Church of the Holy Spirit and will be broadcast live on Radio Koper. The concert will start at 5:30 a.m. The following will perform: vocalists Bogdana Herman and Jani Kutin, narrator Renata Lapanja, instrumentalists Dejan Lapanja and Andrea Pandolfo, and the Simon Gregorčič Octet. The number of seats is limited, but you can bring a pillow or blanket with you. In case of bad weather, the concert will be held the day later at the same time. Admission is free. The event is co-organized by: Radio Koper, the Municipality of Tolmin, the Tolmin Museum, and the Soča Valley Tourism Institute. The event is co-financed from the budget of the Municipality of Tolmin. Introduction of the performers: Jani Kutin is a farmer, woodworker, amateur archaeologist, musician and songwriter, and founder of the band Bakalina Velika. In the poems she creates in the native Čadr dialect, she touches on the rich cultural and spiritual tradition of her native places and coexistence with nature. Bogdana Herman is a professor of Slavic studies and teacher of communication skills, a poet, researcher and singer of folk songs. She was addicted to folk songs since childhood. During her student years, she recreated protest songs and world songs by singing independently with the guitar. At that time, the experimental music group Salamander was formed. She prepares, hosts and participates in numerous radio and television shows on the topic of folk songs. She is particularly interested in folk songs from Rezia and Prekmurje. Renata Lapanja is an anthropologist and culturologist, an amateur accordionist who worked in the band Bakalina for 11 years, and is currently employed as the manager of the Maks Bookstore in Nova Gorica, which operates under the auspices of the ZRC SAZU. She is dedicated to folk storytelling, especially telling fairy tales for adults. Dejan Lapanja is a guitarist with a master's degree in jazz guitar, a multi-instrumentalist, producer and sound engineer who works in both mainstream and alternative projects. He trained in the Škofja Loka band Ulixes and then in the cult bands Projekt mesto and Olivija, later he played with the groups Laibach and Terrafolk, with Vlado Kreslin, Vlatko Stefanovski, Vasko Atanasovski, the jazz orchestra The Fool Cool Orchestra, Katarina Juvančič, Severo Gjurin and many other renowned musicians. He is a member of the band Bakalina Velika. He also creates original music. Andrea Pandolfo is an Italian trumpeter, composer and pedagogue, born in Rome. He graduated in trumpet from the Conservatory in Perugia and further improved his skills in the field of baroque trumpet at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. In addition to classical music, he also devoted himself to jazz at an early age and collaborated with various big bands. He teaches trumpet at the Tolmin Music School. He writes music for theater, film and television. The Simon Gregorčič Octet has been one of the most representative male ensembles in the Primorska region for almost 50 years. While performing the classical choral repertoire, it pays great attention to compositions with lyrics by its patron, the Goriški slavček. As a backing band, the Simon Gregorčič Octet has collaborated in recent years with the Bakalina Duo, Ljoba Jenče and Svetlana Spajić. Javorca – Dawn of Peace is a project that, in the unique ambience of the Holy Spirit Memorial Church, through various musical expressions, from folk tradition to original compositions, opens up fundamental questions about the human relationship to oneself, fellow human beings, nature and the transcendent. These relationships can lead to internal or social conflicts, as well as to the search for coexistence and peace. At a time when new war hotspots are emerging, the project wants to connect its message with the more than 110-year-old symbolic meaning of Javorca and offer visitors and listeners of Radio Koper a live awakening to the dawn of peace. You are cordially invited to join us!