To add to the festival’s jubilee and the double album Jubilej with which Tomaž Domicelj is celebrating the six performances he held in seven years on three Ljubljana Festival stages there will now be a new event bearing the meaningful title of »Acoustic Again«.
The author of many popular hits and hundreds of other compositions will again enchant the magical Hell’s Courtyard in his »boutique« style, accompanied by acoustic guitars and harmonicas, and, for the first time as guest performer, Tinkara Kovač. In last year’s concert entitled »Almost Acoustic«, her surprise rendition of just one song – Domicelj’s translation of the moving film song »La vita e bella« – drew an enthusiastic reaction from the audience in the Križanke Grand Foyer, but this year her contribution will be considerably longer.
Tinkara Kovač is one of Slovenia’s best popular musicians, who in the course of her 25-year career has also showed off her talent abroad. Beginning with the Trieste Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in flute performance, through collaborations with several world renowned rock musicians (Ian Anderson, Robert Plant, Dan Lavery and so on), to this year’s performance in Dubai, where she represented Slovenia at the World Expo. A few years ago the Eurovision audience in Copenhagen sent her to the final of the world’s largest musical festival.
»This year, in the light of recent and current circumstances at home and globally, »Acoustic Again« will undoubtedly be filled with emotion«, says Domicelj. »This will effectively be a romantic concert with a touch of activism.« Tinkara adds: »romantically engaged” actually.«