On 31 August, the Slovene singer and songwriter Vlado Kreslin will perform at the Ljubljana Festival for the 33rd time with his groups Mali Bogovi and Beltinška Banda, while this year’s special guest will be Masayah.

Vlado Kreslin is a musician, songwriter, performer and troubadour who celebrates freedom, multi-ethnicity, community, solidarity and the joy of life. Instead of rehashing his old work or relying on nostalgia, Kreslin keeps surprising us with new songs, even more playful than those of decades ago, more optimistic and upbeat in times of crisis in a changing world. Let every day begin with Kreslin’s Vse se da  and it will be a brighter one.
The Ježek Awards Jury, 2020

Vlado Kreslin is a musical phenomenon whose immediacy, outstanding poetry, and voice, with its mysterious veil, have for decades revealed more than his soul – they have given us a mirror, they have given us cultural heritage, indeed, they have given us back our very selves, in such a subtle and sophisticated way that we hardly notice it, yet we yearn for his music time and again.
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• Vlado Kreslin every year performs songs from his extensive repertoire with a diverse range of guests
• he has performed with numerous musicians from Slovenia and elsewhere over the course of his career, including Siddharta, Parni Valjak and Rade Šerbedžija
• he is most frequently heard performing with Mali Bogovi and Beltinška Banda, groups with which he has raised the profile of Slovene traditional music and the Prekmurje dialect by successfully combining the local with the global
• in 1980 he won the Slovene Song Festival (Slovenska popevka)  with his song Dan neskončnih sanj
• Vlado Kreslin’s discography runs to an impressive 26 albums