The Porto Etno Orchestra can be considered the music foundation of the Festival: ever since the Festival’s first edition in 2017, the Orchestra has been performing at every Porto Etno. In addition to accompanying numerous guests, the Orchestra also performs their songs.
This year, the festival orchestra will be accompanied by 4 legendary Croatian ethno and world music performers – Lidija Bajuk, Nina Ćorić, Bruno Krajcar and Vuk.
Lidija Bajuk is one of the founders of the Croatian contemporary ethno music scene.
She sets her own verses and verses by Croatian poets to music, and reworks and publicly brings to mind lesser-known and neglected Croatian traditional songs. She composes and sings for film and theater, collaborates with other musicians, with ecological and humanitarian organizations, and with cultural and educational institutions. She has published 8 independent audio albums, 7 books of poetry and 4 books of prose, 1 elementary school textbook, 3 manuals for music culture and 1 scientific book. She has also edited 2 textbooks for music culture and 4 ethnographic publications.
Lidija Bajuk
Nina Ćorić has been one of the most striking representatives of flamenco and Spanish culture for 15 years, recognizable by her strong, unique vocals and innovative blend of flamenco with her own musical heritage. She is the author of the acclaimed project Lorca, Flamenco & Tambura with the HRT Tambura Orchestra and maestro Siniša Leopold, nominated for the Porin Award. She collaborates with prominent musicians, including Balkan Zoo’s Maria Rašić. She is the founder and director of the Flamenco Festival Zagreb and the Flamenco en vivo! concert series, and a permanent associate of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Croatia.
Nina Ćorić
Bruno Krajcar cultivates a unique musical expression in which he combines seemingly incompatible, universal musical language understandable to the whole world with traditional musical elements of Istria and Kvarner, a kind of musical unique. He is the author of around 400 compositions (popular, sacred, chansons, songs for children, theater, choirs, klapa, …), and composes and collaborates with many eminent musicians and performs at numerous festivals and concerts in the country and abroad. He collaborates with eminent domestic and foreign musicians – Oliver Dragojević, Stjepan Hauser, Josipa Lisac, Bobby Solo, Edin Karamazov, Vlatko Stefanovski … As a singer-songwriter, he has released seven albums so far.
Bruno Krajcar
Domagoj Vuković – Vuk is a graduated musician. He holds a master’s degree in guitar, and on stage he uses a number of Croatian folk instruments and his voice as his main instrument. In addition to classical singing, he also performs Mongolian throat singing (khoomei), which he considers the embodiment of shamanism; he is the only one in Croatia to perform it in the Croatian language and represented the country at the 1st European throat singing competition Ecchoes of the Steppe. With the help of a looper pedal, he creates an orchestra of voices and instruments. His award-winning original music, instrumental and vocal-instrumental, is rooted in ethno tradition and Slavic mythology.
Domagoj Vuković – Vuk
The Porto Etno Orchestra is led by Zoran Majstorović, the award-winning multi-instrumentalist from Rijeka (guitar, oud, Orchestra lead), and its members include Rajko Ergić (drums), Bojan Skočilić (double bass, electric bass), Dorian Cuculić (keyboards), Vanja Vitezić (percussions) and Robert Mikuljan (trumpet).
Zoran Majstorović
