Slovenian song festival

Last updated

Slovenian song festival (In Slovene : Slovenska popevka) was a Slovenian music festival dedicated to a music genre known as Slovenian song (Slovene : popevka ) that was most popular during the 1960s and 1970s and had a similarly high standing in Slovene culture as did the Sanremo Music Festival in Italian culture. [1] It began in 1962 and ended in 1983, with an attempt at its revival in 1998.

Contents

History

The festival in 1962 was organized at the town of Bled, [2] and in 1964 moved to Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana.

1960s and 1970s winners

YearSongPerformers
1962Mandolina Stane Mancini & Beti Jurkovič
1963Orion Marjana Deržaj & Katja Levstik
Malokdaj se srečavaBeti Jurkovič & Lado Leskovar
1964 Poletna noč Beti Jurkovič (first version)
Marjana Deržaj (second version)
1965Šel si mimo Irena Kohont
1966Ples oblakov Marjana Deržaj
1967Vzameš me v roke Elda Viler
1968Presenečenja Bele vrane & Bor Gostiša
1969Zakaj tvoj dom, zakaj moj dom Jožica Svete
Maček v žaklju Bele vrane
Neizpeta melodija Lidija Kodrič
1970Solza, ki je ne prodam Edvin Fliser
Ti si moj pravi človek Lidija Kodrič
1971Včeraj, danes, jutri Elda Viler
Trideset let Oto Pestner
1972Med iskrenimi ljudmi Majda Sepe
1973Leti, leti lastovka Edvin Fliser
1974Uspavanka za mrtve vagabunde Majda Sepe
1975Mi smo taki Marjana Deržaj & Braco Koren
1976Samo nasmeh je bolj grenak Ditka Haberl
1977Vrača se pomlad Oto Pestner
1978Jamajka Tomaž Domicelj
Moje orglice Janko Ropret
1979Avtomat Tomaž Domicelj

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Slovenia</span> Country in Central Europe

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in southern Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers 20,271 square kilometres (7,827 sq mi), and has a population of 2.1 million. Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geographically situated near the centre of the country.

In the minds of many foreigners, Slovenian folk music means a form of polka that is still popular today, especially among expatriates and their descendants. However, there are many styles of Slovenian folk music beyond polka and waltz. Kolo, lender, štajeriš, mafrine and šaltin are a few of the traditional music styles and dances.

Slovene literature is the literature written in Slovene. It spans across all literary genres with historically the Slovene historical fiction as the most widespread Slovene fiction genre. The Romantic 19th-century epic poetry written by the leading name of the Slovene literary canon, France Prešeren, inspired virtually all subsequent Slovene literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nuša Derenda</span> Musical artist

Nuša Derenda is a Slovenian singer who represented Slovenia at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark where she achieved 7th place.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oton Župančič</span> Slovene poet, translator, and playwright

Oton Župančič was a Slovene poet, translator, and playwright. He is regarded, alongside Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. In the period following World War I, Župančič was frequently regarded as the greatest Slovenian poet after Prešeren, but in the last forty years his influence has been declining and his poetry has lost much of its initial appeal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bojan Adamič</span>

Bojan Adamič a.k.a. Master, Slovene Partisans nom de guerre Gregor, was a well-known Slovene composer of jazz, the Slovenian song festival music, and particularly film scores. He was also an avid photographer, interested particularly in carnival figures from Ptuj.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tomaž Šalamun</span> Slovenian poet (1941–2014)

Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and an internationally acclaimed absurdist. His books of Slovene poetry have been translated into twenty-one languages, with nine of his thirty-nine books of poetry published in English. His work has been called a poetic bridge between old European roots and America. Šalamun was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was married to the painter Metka Krašovec.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Culture of Slovenia</span> Pattern of human activity and symbolism associated with Slovenia and its people

Slovene culture is the culture of the Slovenes, a south Slavic ethnic group. It is incredibly diverse for the country's small size, spanning the southern portion of Central Europe, being the melting pot of Slavic, Germanic and Romance cultures while encompassing the Eastern Alps, Adriatic sea, Panonian plain and a part of Balkan peninsula.

Voglarji is a dispersed settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. Voglarji includes the hamlets of Zavrh and Cvetrež.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Majda Sepe</span> Slovenian singer (1937–2006)

Majda Sepe, born Majda Bernard, was one of the most successful and well recognized Slovenian singers in the time of Yugoslavia and was one of the most renowned singers of the Golden Age of Slovenian folk music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Regina (Slovenian singer)</span> Yugoslav singer

Regina is a Slovenian singer, best known for her participation in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ravenska Vas</span> Place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Ravenska Vas is a settlement immediately east and southeast of Zagorje ob Savi in central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region.

Frajhajm is a dispersed settlement in the Pohorje Hills in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava Statistical Region.

Pokoše is a village northeast of Slovenska Bistrica in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica in the Drava Statistical Region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matija Barl</span> Slovenian actor, producer, and translator (1940–2018)

Matija Barl was a Slovenian actor, producer and translator. In 1962 he founded and organized the first, oldest and most important Slovenian music festival called Slovenska popevka.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">France Koblar</span>

France Koblar was a Slovene literary historian, editor and translator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janez Bončina</span> Musical artist

Janez Bončina, nicknamed Benč is a Slovenian composer, guitarist and singer. He is one of the leading authors and performers of Slovenian and Yugoslavian rock music. In the middle of the 1960s, Bončina with his friend Tomaž Domicelj from the group Helioni, showed his talent for music. Later with the group Mladi levi he founded the projects, which started the Slovenian pop rock scene.

"The Earth is Dancing" is a 1962 pop song, music of which was written by Mojmir Sepe based on a lyrics by Slovene poet Gregor Strniša that was awarded at the first edition of the Slovenian song festival where it was sung by a notable singer Marijana Držaj. The song became an evergreen, a popular and enduring example of Slovenian popular music. It has been since then released in a number of re-mixes. It also inspired one of the first musical videospots made in 1980s in Slovenia, at the time part of Yugoslavia, where both the videospot and the song were also popular.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bele Vrane</span> Yugoslav rock band

Bele Vrane were a Yugoslav rock band formed in Ljubljana in 1966.

Miha Kralj is a Slovene composer, singer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age musical genres in Slovenia and former SFR Yugoslavia. He is also called "Yugoslavian Jean-Michel Jarre".

References

Further reading