When:
- Friday from 20.00
- Saturday, Sunday from 19.00
Borderless Party: Magnifico, Elevators, Big band NOVA
The Borderless Tastes project is part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia and is designed as the second of four mass programme events entitled Stop the City! with great cultural and tourist potential.
Friday, 26 September 2025, 20:00
Elevators + Big band RTV Slovenija
Elevators – Jani Hace, Robi Pikl, Davor Klarić, and Sergej Ranđelović – will join forces with the Big band RTV Slovenija, conducted by Patrik Greblo. The special guest of the evening will be Tina Blazinšek, who will enrich the concert with her flute and vocals and sing the song Na krilih ljubezni (On the Wings of Love), which she performed in the original version. Their collaboration already thrilled audiences in December 2024 at a special edition of the Izštekani show at Kino Šiška, and now the band will present itself in an even more powerful form on stage in Nova Gorica. The arrangements of twelve songs from the Elevators' oeuvre, enriched with big band breadth, will delight with their musical creativity.
Saturday, 27 September 2025, 19:00
Magnifico & band
Magnifico is a musician with style, a poet with charm, synonymous with Balkan disco pop.
Magnifico established himself as an unorthodox and versatile composer and musician in the former Yugoslavia with his first albums, Od srca do srca (1993), Gdo je čefur (1996), and Sexy Boy (1999). His music paints a picture of a world without borders, and his performances offer audiences a unique experience every time, which is why Magnifico's fans regularly return to his concerts with enthusiasm.
Magnifico's music is inspired by the former Yugoslav pop scene, spiced up with a unique blend of Latin, reggae, surf, and Balkan elements, creating a unique and recognizable sound that easily enters the listener's ears and heart. With it, he has won over audiences not only at home and in the region, but also more broadly in the international arena, especially with the albums Export/Import (2004) and Magnification (2010).
Magnifico often flirted with the world of film, appearing in Slovenian films such as Stereotip, Pornofilm, Poker, and Kajmak in marmelada, as well as by composing the soundtracks for the films Montevideo, bog te video and Montevideo, vidimo se, directed by Dragan Bjelogrlić.
Magnifico released his latest studio album, Charlatan de Balkan, in 2016, and last year celebrated the 30th anniversary of his musical career with an extraordinary concert in Stanežiče in front of 23,000 fans, which gave him new creative momentum. In June 2025, he announced his new studio album, Alpe Adria, with the single and video Korak po korak, which will be released in the fall.
You will be able to hear some new songs from the upcoming album alongside Magnifico's tried and tested repertoire of hits, such as Silvija, Hir aj kam, hir aj go, Tivoli, Sonce posijalo, Pukni zoro, and many others. You can also listen to them at his concert as part of the Borderless Tastes event in Nova Gorica, where he will perform on 27 September. The musical treat from the undisputed master of the concert stage, which will thrill you and bring a smile to your lips, will be further enhanced by the performance of the members of the combined orchestra.
The concert in Nova Gorica is part of Magnifico's Alpe Adria tour, which will culminate in a Christmas spectacle at the Stožice Arena, where he will host the Alpe Adria Show with the Veliki Revijski Disko Šlager Orkester on December 25.
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Gong Orchestra + Balkan Boys
In the spring of 2024, the first cross-border wind orchestra, GONG Orchestra, officially began its activities. The orchestra brings together wind players from Goriški pihalni orkestrer and musicians from neighboring Italy under the baton of maestro Sandi Cej. It made its debut at the Tabor Music Evenings, immediately achieving great success! United in the Gong orchestra, the musicians continued with a series of concerts under the stars in Italian and Slovenian castles. Last year, on Day of Peace, they performed in Chemnitz, Germany, which is also this year's European Capital of Culture. For 2025, in addition to performing with Magnifico and the Balkan Boys, they have announced a concert in Sicily in the prestigious Pirandello Theater in Agrigento. The president of the orchestra is Simon Pintar.
Balkan Boys – From the basement of the student dormitory to performing at Stožice! Last year, the Balkan Boys celebrated their fifteenth anniversary. For almost half of their lives, the guys have been performing on stage, captivating crowds with their unique Balkan sound blended into global rhythms and energetic performances. In September, the band also released their new, fourth album entitled Grill. The Balkan Boys are not just an ordinary Balkan group. They are the purest reflection of what the Balkans truly are and how much love, joy, and dance music, supported by strong temperament, they can offer. The Balkan Boys express their perception of the Balkan spirit through ethno, world, and folk music. The sound of the Balkans in world rhythms!
GONG Orchestra
Balkan Boys
Sunday, 28 September 2025, 19:00
Big band NOVA with guests
Concert marking the 30th anniversary of the band!
The Big band NOVA has been performing continuously since 1995. Eighteen musicians gathered in the hall of the Nova Gorica Music School: pupils, their teachers, high school and university music students, and a few musicians from Goriška. Over 80 young musicians from Nova Gorica and the surrounding area have performed in the band at approximately 350 concerts. Many of them continued their musical careers by studying jazz at home and abroad (Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands). On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, you will hear them again as soloists in the band, alongside professors from the Nova Gorica Music School and several older founding members. The band is currently led by jazz pianist and composer Blaž Pahor.
Although Big band NOVA has hosted many domestic and foreign stars, such as jazz singers Sherrita Duran (Los Angeles, California) and Gwen Hughes (Atlanta, Georgia), it prefers and most often collaborates with domestic, especially Primorska vocalists, such as Tinkara Kovač, Anika Horvat, Tatjana Mihelj, Rudi Bučar, Lea Sirk, Vlado Kreslin, Kristina Oberžan, Nuša Derenda, and many others.
Old friends will join us at the 30th anniversary concert: Nuša and Matevž Derenda, Lea Sirk, Kristina Oberžan, and local artists Tatjana Mihelj and Tish. In addition, the Big band NOVA will treat us to several instrumental pieces that they have performed many times in the past.
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