Like we’ve mentioned before, the music scene in Split is booming. On any given night you can head out to see live music at any of the various venues we have scattered around Split, and there are often music showcases held that exhibit Split and Dalmatia’s latest talents. With an active audience and ever growing music loving crowd, Split is surely becoming the new normal for musicians in Croatia.

We all should be aware that Croatia is quickly becoming the music festival capital of Europe. From various festivals in Zagreb, Pag, Tisno, and Split, it's no wonder their successes are encouraging many to begin festivals of their own. This brings us to Gljevstock, the music festival of Sinj. The first Gljevstock was held in 2010, starting out as an informal music event where members of the Sinj music community would gather together to hang out. Gljevstock quickly gained a following from there, and soon began drawing in much larger audiences.

Come 2011, the Gljevstock organization was overtaken by the Sinj Artistic Commune Association, where a higher quality sound system was provided, a stage, food, drinks, and promotion helped to bring the festival to a larger scale. In 2012, popularity greatly rose, and bands from all over Croatia were lining up to perform.

The purpose of Gljevstock is to simply hang out with the good people around you, listen to some qualtiy music from around the region, and feel fully free. The bands at Gljevstock do not compete with each other, but rather compliment one another. In the past, bothing camping and ticket sales have been free.

Gljevstock exists for the music and the people. It is alive to give you the opportunity to engage with others arround you, and to find fresh music that you can bring back to your friends. Gljevstock is simple, and we can't wait to share this experience with you!

This year's lineup includes: Sara Renar, Repassage, M.O.R.T., Darkvud, Shewa, Jare, Underdog, Bekdors, Novi dan, Bluz, Jagoda, and OČ. The festival is held on Saturday, May 28th, beginning at 15.00. You can find out more info about Gljevstock here!

Photo courtesy of Jelena Pavlinušić.

What is music association with Dalmatia? Mostly klapa singing, of course, but there are so many other nice things to hear around here. Now, it's hard to expect that anyone might ever heard about Dalmatian jazz, but it is possible, and - believe me - very, very good when it's performed by a Split-Zadar band called Black Coffee. Never heard of them? You are missing quite a bit.

One of the oportunities to experience Black Coffee, and their combination of Dalmatian music traditions and jazz will be band's concert in Quasimodo Club, on November, 29. They will perform featuring US-Croatian singer Martine Thomas.

Black Coffee was founded in 1993, mostly with bass player Renato Švorinić and drummer Jadran Dučić Čićo, and recently pianist Ivan Ivić became permanent member. Their main strength are colaborations with some of the most prominent Croatian, and even international musicians. Band recorde 11 albums so far, and won three Porins, Croatian version of Grammy. In the last few years their main interest is implementation of Mediterranean heritage with jazz. However, they also play jazz, funk, and even rock standards.

Tickets are 30 kunas, available in the club, and more details - including location - available on Facebook event page. As a warm up, here is Black Coffee and Martine Thomas.