Belgrade Beer Fest - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Belgrade Beer Fest is an annual festival of beer

Beer

Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...

in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. Started in 2003, the festival is held annually over 4 to 5 days as a showcase event for various beer producers. In addition to domestic and foreign brews, the festival features live music performances each evening. It has quickly grown in size and popularity: in 2004, it attracted over 75,000 foreign visitors to Belgrade and in 2005 it was the second most visited festival in Serbia with 300,000 visitors. In 2009 it attracted more than 650,000 visitors, and in 2010 the festival attracted about 900,000 visitors.

The festival entrance is free.

2003

In 2003, the Festival was held for the first time at the Kalemegdan Fortress. It lasted from August 21 to August 24. The sport program included a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

tournament, and badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

and basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

matches. The musical program was divided into two parts: the rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

and world music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

acts performed from 18:00 until 00:30 and DJs from 00:30 until 05:00. The festival featured mostly acts from Serbia and other former Yugoslav republics: Psihomodo Pop

Psihomodo Pop

Psihomodo Pop is a Croatian pop punk group. The band was formed in 1983 in Zagreb and has since achieved a somewhat cult following across the area of former Yugoslavia....

, Neno Belan & Fiumens

Neno Belan

Neno Belan is a Croatian rock musician, known as the frontman of Đavoli, as well as for his solo work.-Early career:Neno Belan started his career as a teenager in the band Losos, Kavijar i Marsovi Bizoni...

, Hladno Pivo

Hladno pivo

Hladno pivo is a Croatian punk rock band. It is one of most popular rock bands in Croatia.-Early history:The band was formed in Zagreb. It initially consisted of four members: Zok, Tedi, Suba, Mile...

, Sunshine

Sunshine (Serbian band)

- 1990s :The band was formed in 1993 by the vocalist Branko Bojović "Bane", also known as Gumbrowski, who, having previously worked in the Novi Beograd band Green Cool Posse, formed Sunshine with vocalist Đorđe Radivojević, also known as Đole Ramirez...

, Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts is a Serbian band which plays Irish folk music combined with rock elements. Despite their unusual sound the band is one of the top acts of the Serbian rock scene and has influenced several younger bands, most notably Tir na n'Og and Irish Stew of Sindidun.The band started their...

(the only act which appeared on every Belgrade Beer Fest so far, except Belgrade Beer Fest 2004, when their performance, alongside the whole program for August 21 and 22 was canceled), Eyesburn

Eyesburn

Eyesburn is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band with influences of reggae music.- 1990s :The band was formed in 1994, and the original line-up featured former Dead Ideas guitarist Nemanja "Kojot" Kojić , who simultaneously worked as trombonist in Del Arno Band and bass guitarist in...

, Tir na n'Og

Tir na n'Og

Alfapop is is a Serbian power pop band from Belgrade.The band was formed in 2000 under the name Tir na n'Og . Initially, the band performed Irish folk and Celtic rock, and released one Celtic rock-oriented album...

, So Sabi, Intruder

Intruder (band)

Intruder is an electronic/pop group from Belgrade, Serbia. The band has published five LP albums to date.- Albums :* 1998 Experiment* 1999 Windows '99* 2000 Able* 2003 Strange Kind of Beautiful* 2006 Dancing Shoes Starry Skies...

, Rare

Rare (Serbian band)

- 2000s :The band, formed in 1998 by Mirko Luković , Nemanja Subotić , Branislav Radojković and Dario Janošević , having won the Urban Demo festival in 2000, got the opportunity to record their debut studio album...

, Vroom, and others.

2004

The festival was held at Kalemegdan Fortress from August 19 to August 22. On August 19, musical program featured Lude Krawe, Grandpa Candys, Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack (band)

-Band history:The band, originally named Caramba, was formed at the end of 1998 by Stevan Birak , Miodrag Krudulj , Vladimir Jezdimirović and Dušan Gnjidić ....

, Rapid Force, Negative, Hladno Pivo

Hladno pivo

, and Irish Stew of Sindidun

Irish Stew of Sindidun

Irish Stew of Sindidun is a Celtic rock band from Belgrade, Serbia. While initially playing Irish folk music, the band later made a shift towards light punk rock, inspired by Irish folk music and other genres...

, among others. On August 20, Kraljevski Apartman

Kraljevski Apartman

Kraljevski Apartman is a Serbian heavy metal band from Belgrade.-Apartman 69:...

, Gang Bangers, E-Play

E-Play

- History :The band was formed in 1997, initially having several lineup changes before the lineup consisting of Biljana Todorovski , Maja Cvetković and Jarboli member Nemanja Aćimović became the default one. The band also had a semi-official band member Sonja Lončar who played an analogous...

, Van Gogh

Van Gogh (band)

Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

, Night Shift

Night Shift (band)

- Underground years :The band was formed in 1991, by the Šćepanović brothers, Milan and Danijel , with their friend Marko Dacić . The official date of the band formation was chosen to be January 11, 1991, when the trio had their first live performance...

, Saša Lokner, among others, performed. The musical program scheduled for August 21 and 22 was canceled due to the storm that damaged the stage.

2005

The festival was held at Kalemegdan Fortress. For the first time the festival lasted for five days, from August 17 to August 21. On August 17, musical program featured Irish Stew of Sindidun

Irish Stew of Sindidun

, Sirova Koža, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade.-1990s:...

, Van Gogh

Van Gogh (band)

Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

, Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis", and others. On August 18, musical program featured Tir na n'Og

Tir na n'Og

, Đorđe David & Gang, Tanja Jovićević, Darko Rundek

Darko Rundek

Darko Rundek is a Croatian rock singer, songwriter, poet, and actor. His music career started in the early '80s, as the frontman of the world music influenced rock band Haustor...

, Delča i Sklekovi, and Zona B

Zona B

-History:Former Idoli bassist Zdenko Kolar and drummer Dušan Ristić "Rista" officially formed Zona B on November 29, 1986. After several personnel changes, the band got a default lineup featuring Jovan "Lole" Savić , Dušan "Duda" Bezuha , Tomislav "Toma" Rakijaš and Vladimir "Buca" Filipović...

, among others. On August 19, the lineup included Kraljevski Apartman

Kraljevski Apartman

Kraljevski Apartman is a Serbian heavy metal band from Belgrade.-Apartman 69:...

, Najda & Gale

Goran Šepa

Goran Šepa , also known as Gale, is a Serbian singer. He is best known as the lead singer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock/heavy metal band Kerber...

, Sunshine

Sunshine (Serbian band)

, and Shiroko. On August 18, Ljute Papričice (who performed a tribute to Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...

), Point Blank, So Sabi, Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

, Del Arno Band

Del Arno Band

Del Arno Band is a Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae band from Belgrade. Formed in 1986, Del Arno Band are considered the longest lasting Serbian reggae band, and one of the pioneers of Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae scenes.-1980s:...

, and other acts performed. The last evening of the festival featured several less known acts.

On December 31, 2005 the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

newspaper The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

named Belgrade Beer Fest "one of the worldwide events to visit in 2006".

2006

The festival was held at Kalemegdan Fortress from August 16 to August 20. On August 16, musical program included Šinobusi, Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra, Zvonko Bogdan

Zvonko Bogdan

Zvonko Bogdan is an eminent performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. Apart from being famous as a singer, he is also a composer, painter and harness racer...

, Plava Trava Zaborava, Šukar

Sukar

Sukar is a village in the Charsadda District, Pakistan. It is on the Shabqadar road, about from Sardaryab....

, So Sabi, and others. On August 17, 357, Alogia

Alogia (band)

Alogia is a Serbian progressive/power metal band from Smederevo. Formed in 2000 by brothers Miroslav and Srđan Branković, Alogia is one of the top acts of the Serbian heavy metal scene.-History:...

, Eyesburn

Eyesburn

, Atomsko Sklonište

Atomsko sklonište

Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...

and Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

, among others, performed. On August 18, Tir na n'Og

Tir na n'Og

, Omar Naber

Omar Naber

Omar Naber , born Omar Kareem Naber , is a Slovenian singer and songwriter.He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His father was from Jordania, while his mother is Slovenian...

, Damir Urban

Damir Urban

Damir Urban is a popular Croatian musician best known for his work as a singer/songwriter for Laufer and for his solo work with his band 4.-Early years:...

, Van Gogh

Van Gogh (band)

Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

, Električni Orgazam

Električni Orgazam

Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...

, Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis", and other acts performed. On August 19, the lineup included Irish Stew of Sindidun

Irish Stew of Sindidun

, Đorđe David & Gang, Superhiks

Superhiks

Superhiks is a Macedonian ska-punk and reggae band with occasional swing, Latin and Balkan folk music elements from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They gained international prominence after appearing on MTV France, MTV Israel and MTV Adria...

, Rambo Amadeus

Rambo Amadeus

Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić, popular all over the former Yugoslavia...

, Zabranjeno Pušenje and DJ Kevin Saunderson

Kevin Saunderson

Kevin Saunderson is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students, Derrick May and Juan Atkins...

. The last day of the festival, August 20, featured performances by tribute bands.

2007

The 2007 Festival was held at Kalemegdan Fortress from August 15 to August 19. For 2007 Festival, the second stage, sponsored by Beck's

Beck's

Brauerei Beck & Co is a German brewery in the north German city of Bremen. Owned by local families until February 2002, it was then sold to Interbrew for 1.8 billion euros. The brewery was formed under the name Kaiserbrauerei Beck & May o.H.G. in 1873 by Lüder Rutenberg, Heinrich Beck and Thomas...

, was added. Beck'sperience Stage featured electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

acts, while the Main Stage fatured rock, pop and world music acts. The acts that appeared on the Main Stage on the first day of the festival included Trigger

Trigger (band)

Trigger is a Serbian hard rock/heavy metal band from Belgrade.-History:The band was formed in 2005. During the same year, the band started working on the songs for their debut album, enetering the studio in 2006. The lineup changed several times during the work on the album, but became stable at...

, Đura i Mornari, Nikola Čuturilo

Nikola Čuturilo

Nikola Čuturilo , also known as Čutura is a Serbian musician...

, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade.-1990s:...

, EKV Revisited, Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis", Neno Belan & Fiumens

Neno Belan

, and other acts. The acts that appeared on the Main Stage on August 16 included Leonardo, Osmi Putnik

Osmi putnik

Osmi putnik is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock/heavy metal band.-1985 - 1989:...

, Dan D

Dan D

Dan D is a popular Slovenian rock band that has been formed in 1996 in Novo Mesto and has published four albums till now.-Band members:...

, Vlatko Stefanovski

Vlatko Stefanovski

Vlatko Stefanovski is Macedonian ethno-rock jazz fusion guitar player.-Biography:Born in Prilep in 1957, he started playing guitar at the age of 13. Stefanovski was one of the founding members of Leb i sol with whom he recorded 13 albums between 1978 and 1991...

, YU grupa

YU grupa

YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....

, Vatreni Poljubac and Deca Loših Muzičara

Deca Loših Muzičara

Deca Loših Muzičara , often abbreviated to DLM, are a funk rock band from Belgrade. They were one of most popular Serbian bands in the early 1990s...

. The acts that appeared on the Main Stage on August 17 included Rare

Rare (Serbian band)

, Kristali

Kristali

Kristali are a Serbian britpop/pop rock band from Belgrade.- 1990s :The band was formed on January 1993, by bassist and vocalist Dejan Gvozden and guitarist Željko Markuš, whom, having performed blues and rock standards in Belgrade cafes, were joined by drummer Dejan Kostić...

, Najda & Gale

Goran Šepa

Goran Šepa , also known as Gale, is a Serbian singer. He is best known as the lead singer for the Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock/heavy metal band Kerber...

, Psihomodo Pop

Psihomodo Pop

Psihomodo Pop is a Croatian pop punk group. The band was formed in 1983 in Zagreb and has since achieved a somewhat cult following across the area of former Yugoslavia....

, Foltin

Foltin

Foltin is one of the most important Macedonian bands that exists since 1997. Foltin's music is hard to define, sounds unpredicateble and challenging: surreal, passionate and witty, dynamic, full of surprises and humorous, blending many different music genres: jazz, funk, bossa nova, ambient, and...

, E-Play

E-Play

and Kraljevski Apartman

Kraljevski Apartman

Kraljevski Apartman is a Serbian heavy metal band from Belgrade.-Apartman 69:...

. The bands that performed on the Main Stage on August 18 included Čovek Bez Sluha

Covek Bez Sluha

- 1990s :The band was formed in late 1994 by Mikica Zdravković and Aleksandar Marković "Coa" with Željko Maksimović "Maks" and Radomir Mirković . The band was soon joined by the former Van Gogh bassist Dejan Ilić "Cvika"...

, Elvis Jackson, Del Arno Band

Del Arno Band

, Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

, So Sabi. On the last day of the festival, the Main Stage featured Zona B

Zona B

, Elvis J. Kurtović, Emir & Frozen Camels featuring Danny Shepard, and Van Gogh

Van Gogh (band)

Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

Incident

On the last day of the festival the body of a 22-year old Branko Jovanović from Belgrade was found dead and partially consumed in the bear cage at the Belgrade Zoo

Belgrade Zoo

Belgrade Good Hope Garden is the zoo in Belgrade situated at the very center of the city, in the Kalemegdan park. It was founded in 1936.It covers an area of , and has 2,000 animals of 270 species, and beside wild animals it abounds in domestic animals too....

(also located at the Fortress). It is believed that the man, possibly drunk or drugged, may have fallen from a restaurant overlooking the bear

Bear

Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern...

cage, which is an open-air structure, with no roof. Two adult bears had dragged the man's body to the feeding corner of the cage. The investigation department of the court claimed that there were no indications that the young man was murdered.

2008

In 2008, the Festival moved to Ušće park

Ušce (Belgrade)

Ušće is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd. Ušće is located on the mouth of the Sava river into the Danube, thus the name...

. It was held from August 20 to August 24. The musical program on the first evening of the festival featured Šank Rock

Šank Rock

Šank Rock was a five-piece Slovenian rock group, formed in 1982. In their long-lasting career they have published 13 albums.Their greatest distinction is probably that their music remains the same as it was from the beginning...

, KUD Idijoti

KUD Idijoti

KUD Idijoti is a punk-rock band from Pula, Croatia. The band was formed on February 2, 1981 and released their first album in 1986...

, Dragoljub Đuričić & Drummers

Dragoljub Đuričić

Dragoljub Đuričić is a Belgrade, Serbia-based Montenegrin musician. He is known as the drummer for the bands YU grupa, Leb i Sol, and Kerber, as a member of Zdravko Čolić's and Đorđe Balašević's backing bands, as well as for his solo work.-Biography:Đuričić was born in 1954 in Cetinje...

, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade.-1990s:...

, Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis", among others. The program on August 21 included performances by Big Foot Mama

Big Foot Mama

Big Foot Mama is a rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is one of the most popular Slovenian pop rock bands of the 1990s.The group started their career in 1990...

, Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša

Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša

Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade.- Formation, first releases :...

, Generacija 5

Generacija 5

Generacija 5 is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Belgrade.-1977—1982:...

, Film, Dubioza Kolektiv

Dubioza kolektiv

Dubioza kolektiv is a Bosnian band from Zenica, whose music consists of various styles ranging from Reggae, Dub and Rock intermixed with political lyrics along with uplifting and melodic tendencies.-History:...

, Atomsko Sklonište

Atomsko sklonište

Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...

and Carne Cruda

Carne Cruda

Carne Cruda is a Post-Latin band based in Oakland, California. The band consists of 5 core members and incorporates frequent guest appearances, and also frequently backs up other artists.-Band History:...

. On August 22, the music program included performances by Block Out

Block Out (band)

Block Out is a grunge/alternative rock band from Belgrade, Serbia. Their musical style is a combination of artistic alternative rock, punk rock, doom metal and psychedelic rock...

, Galija

Galija

Galija is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Niš. The central figures of the band are brothers Nenad Milosavljević and Predrag Milosavljević...

, Kiril Džajkovski

Kiril Dzajkovski

Kiril Džajkovski , often credited as simply Kiril, is an internationally acclaimed Macedonian electronic musician and music composer.-Biography:...

and Timo Maas

Timo Maas

Timo Maas is an electronic music DJ/producer and remixer.-Career:Maas bought his first set of turntables at the age of 17, and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party in his friend's home...

. The acts that performed on August 23 included Goribor

Goribor

Goribor is a Serbian alternative rock band from Bor. Having performed as a teenage band called Projekat from 1988 until 1992, after a four-year hiatus, the band was reformed in 1996 by the founding members, the vocalist Aleksandar Stojković "St" and guitarist Željko Ljubić "Pity" with the...

, Atheist Rap

Atheist Rap

Atheist Rap is a Serbian punk rock band from Novi Sad.- 1980s :The idea of forming Atheist Rap came to vocalists Aleksandar Popov, also known as "Dr. Pop", and Vladimir Kozbašić, also known as "Pećinko" at the Rambo Amadeus concert, which took place on November 29, 1988 at the local club Mašinac,...

, Dado Topić & Time

Dado Topic

Adolf "Dado" Topić is a singer who sang the entry from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 together with the band Dragonfly. He is one of the most popular rock musicians of Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band...

, Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

, Darkwood Dub

Darkwood Dub

Darkwood Dub are an alternative rock band from Belgrade, Serbia, which, formed in 1988, gradually grew to prominence on the Serbian rock scene. Their music is characterized by gentle bass lines, a mixture of live drumming and electronic percussion, along with frequent use of slide guitar,...

and Sunshine

Sunshine (Serbian band)

. The last evening of the festival included performances by Oružjem Protivu Otmičara

Oružjem Protivu Otmičara

Oružjem Protivu Otmičara is a Serbian pop punk/power pop band from Zrenjanin.- 1990s :...

, Nervozni Poštar, Vrelo, Arhangel

Arhangel

Arhangel is an Macedonian alternative rock band formed in 1987. The frontman is Risto Vrtev who has also been part of such rock bands as Mizar and Inola X. The original line-up is: Panta Dzambazoski, Risto Vrtev, Dragan Ginovski, Petar Jankov...

, Van Gogh

Van Gogh (band)

Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

, and other acts.

2009

In 2009, the Festival was once again held at Ušće park. It lasted from August 12 to August 16. On the first night of the festival musical program featured Zvonko Bogdan

Zvonko Bogdan

Zvonko Bogdan is an eminent performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. Apart from being famous as a singer, he is also a composer, painter and harness racer...

, Wickeda

Wickeda

Wickeda is a Bulgarian rock band. It is quite popular in Bulgaria, and has occasionally topped the charts. Its style comprises punk, ska, reggae, funk and some traditional Bulgarian folk music elements...

, Laibach

Laibach (band)

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...

, Stereo MC's and Strip, among others. The acts that performed on August 13 included Odjila, Divlje Jagode

Divlje jagode

Divlje Jagode is a Yugoslav and Bosnian hard rock and heavy metal band.-1970s:Divlje Jagode were formed in 1977 in Bihać by guitarist Zele Lipovača...

, Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar

Darko Rundek

Darko Rundek is a Croatian rock singer, songwriter, poet, and actor. His music career started in the early '80s, as the frontman of the world music influenced rock band Haustor...

, Rambo Amadeus

Rambo Amadeus

Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić, popular all over the former Yugoslavia...

, LMT Connection

LMT Connection

LMT Connection is a Niagara-based funk and soul trio. The band has been together since 1989, and have recorded four studio albums. Blending R&B, funk, and jazz, they described their sound as "Universal Soul", which is also the title of their third studio CD, released in the fall of 2003...

, Letu Štuke and Esma Redžepova

Esma Redzepova

Esma Redžepova is a Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian. During her life she has performed in more than 9000 concerts in 30 countries, with her late husband Stevo Teodosievski she has fostered forty-seven children, and she has received numerous accolades for her humanitarian work. By...

. On August 14, the program featured Rapid Force, Vatra, Aleksandra Pileva

Aleksandra Pileva

Aleksandra Pileva is a rock / pop-rock singer and songwriter from the Republic of Macedonia. Pileva's music contains elements of modern rock, pop rock, blues / rock ballads and alternative rock.-Biography:...

, Psihomodo Pop

Psihomodo Pop

Psihomodo Pop is a Croatian pop punk group. The band was formed in 1983 in Zagreb and has since achieved a somewhat cult following across the area of former Yugoslavia....

and Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

, among others. On August 15 Toni Kitanovski & Čerkezi Orkestar

Toni Kitanovski

Toni Kitanovski is a Macedonian jazz guitarist. Born in Skopje, 1964. Toni started his musical education with Dragan Gjakonovski - Spato in 1979. From 1986 till 1990 he was the leader of the trio “Spato”, performing numerous concerts, radio and TV appearances as a trio as well as many solo...

, Let 3

Let 3

Let 3 is a modern rock band from Rijeka, Croatia formed in 1987. The band frontmen are Damir "Mrle" Martinović and Zoran "Prlja" Prodanović. The band is popular in Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics due to their original approach to rock music and their obscene live performances...

, Emir & Frozen Camels, among others, performed. On the last day of the Festival, the lineup featured Valentino, Vlatko Stefanovski

Vlatko Stefanovski

and Kiki Lesendrić & Piloti

Piloti (band)

Piloti is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Formed in 1981, and initially immersed in the Yugoslav New Wave scene, the band later moved towards mainstream pop rock, they came to prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the leading pop rock acts in former Yugoslavia...

, among others.

The motto of the 2009 Festival was "Biram da recikliram" (I Choose to Recycle").

2010

The 2010 Belgrade Beer Fest was at Ušće Park and lasted for five days, from August 18 to August 22. The acts on the first night of the festival included Instant Karma, Zdenka Kovačiček (who performed a tribute to Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...

), Ana Popović

Ana Popovic

Ana Popović is a Serbian blues guitarist and singer.-Biography:Ana Popović's father first introduced her to the blues, through an extensive record collection and sessions hosted at the family home. Popović founded her first band at age nineteen...

, Partibrejkers

Partibrejkers

Partibrejkers is a prominent Serbian rock band from Belgrade, as well as an acclaimed act of the former Yugoslav rock scene....

, Kiril Džajkovski

Kiril Dzajkovski

Kiril Džajkovski , often credited as simply Kiril, is an internationally acclaimed Macedonian electronic musician and music composer.-Biography:...

, Gramophonedzie

Gramophonedzie

Marko Milićević , most known as Gramophonedzie , is a Serbian DJ from Belgrade. He started his career in the year 2000 as participant at the Irish RedBull Music Academy. Milićević is known for producing the theme songs for Balkan versions of the TV show Big Brother...

, and Benny Benassi

Benny Benassi

Marco Benassi , better known as Benny Benassi, is a Grammy Award winning Italian disc jockey and record producer of electro house music. He is best known for his 2002 summer club hit "Satisfaction"...

. The acts that performed on the second night of the festival included Zona B

Zona B

, Legende, Jurica Pađen & Aerodrom, Riblja Čorba

Riblja Corba

Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...

, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi

Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade.-1990s:...

, S.A.R.S.

S.A.R.S.

Sveže Amputirana Ruka Satrijanija , or S.A.R.S. for short, are a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade...

, and Kal

Kal (band)

Kal is a world music Romani band from Serbia . They attracted Serbian and worldwide public interest with their eponymous debut album, released in 2006, presenting a blend of traditional Balkan Roma music with influences of Tango, Middle Eastern, Turkish and even Jamaican influences.Kal was formed...

. The acts that performed on the third night included Pankrti

Pankrti

Pankrti were a punk rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active in the late 1970s and during the 1980s. They were known for provocative and politically engaged songs and billed themselves "The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain"...

, Bajaga i Instruktori

Bajaga i Instruktori

Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...

, Del Arno Band

Del Arno Band

, and Skroz, as well as several tribute bands. On the fourth night of the festival Siddharta

Siddharta (band)

Siddharta is a five-piece Slovenian rock band founded in 1995. They are named after the popular novel by German writer Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.- History :...

, Sunshine

Sunshine (Serbian band)

, YU grupa

YU grupa

, Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

, and Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis", among others, performed. The lineup on the last evening of the 2010 festival featured Bilja Krstić & Bistrik Orchestra

Bilja Krstic

Biljana "Bilja" Krstić is a Serbian singer. She was born on November 9, 1955 in Niš and brought up on the folk traditions of central Serbia. Biljana first studied music in Niš at the music school "Dr. Vojislav Vučković", after graduating she continued her education by travelling to Belgrade to...

, Dejan Cukić

Dejan Cukic

Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...

, Neno Belan & Fiumens

Neno Belan

, and Van Gogh

Van Gogh (band)

Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...

, among others.

The motto of the 2010 festival was also "Biram da recikliram" ("I Choose to Recycle").

2011

The 2011 Belgrade Beer Fest was held from August 17 to August 21. The acts which performed on August 17 included Šinobusi, Vasil Hadžimanov Band, maNga, Negative, Riblja Čorba

Riblja Corba

, and Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg

Marky Ramone

Marky Ramone is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer for the Ramones, but has also played in other notable bands like Dust, Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, and the Misfits.Although he is not the original drummer , Marky is the only living...

. The acts which performed on August 18 included Zvonko Bogdan

Zvonko Bogdan

Zvonko Bogdan is an eminent performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. Apart from being famous as a singer, he is also a composer, painter and harness racer...

, Sevdah Baby, Magnifico, Simple Minds

Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...

, Hypnotized, Goblini

Goblini

Goblini are a Serbian punk rock band from Šabac.- Formation, rise to prominence :...

, and Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts

. On August 19, Garavi Sokak

Garavi Sokak

Garavi Sokak is a Serbian folk rock/pop band, formed in Novi Sad in 1982.-Late 1980s and 1990s:...

, Svremenaši

S Vremena Na Vreme

S Vremena Na Vreme was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade...

, S.A.R.S.

S.A.R.S.

Sveže Amputirana Ruka Satrijanija , or S.A.R.S. for short, are a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade...

, Dubioza Kolektiv

Dubioza kolektiv

, Kerber

Kerber

Kerber is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Niš.-1980s:The original members of Kerber were Goran Šepa "Gale" , Tomislav Nikolić , Branislav "Bane" Božinović , Zoran Stamenković and Zoran Madić . In 1981, formerly known as Top Kerber (Serbian Cyrillic: Кербер; trans. Cerberus) is a...

, and Atomsko Sklonište

Atomsko sklonište

Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...

, among others, performed. Pips, Chips & Videoclips

Pips, Chips & Videoclips

Pips, Chips & Videoclips are a rock band from Zagreb, Croatia. They formed in the early 1990s and have released six studio albums and a number of singles....

, Zemlja Gruva, Jura Stublić & Film, Uli Jon Roth, Boris Leiner & Pozdrav Azri, and Dejan Petrović Big Band, among others, performed on August 20. The acts which performed on the last day of the festival, August 21, included Emir & Frozen Camels, Svi Na Pod!, Lollobrigida

Lollobrigida Girls

Lollobrigida girls, also known as VIS Lollobrigida or Lollobrigida is originally a Croatian, Zagreb-based, female electro-pop/synthpop band. In 2008...

, Sanja Ilić & Balkanika, and Kiki Lesendrić i Piloti

Piloti (band)

External links

Belgrade Beer Fest - Official website

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.