Festival Lent 2014: Jazz(lent)

My second year as the official photographer for this great summer jazz festival which brought some delicious moments and discoveries!

The final gallery from this years Festival Lent contains some moments captured offstage, on stage (but not as performance), behind stage and on the streets of Maribor, during the festival.

Festival Lent 2014 - 16 days of hard work and so much fun - the photo story is coming to the end. In this gallery, among others: Inner Circle, Jinx, John Lee Sanders & Rad Gumbo and ZircuS!

During this 16 days of Festival Lent, I also shoot some (contemporary) dance performances and theatre for children - find some of those images in this gallery :)

Street theatre at it's best!

Festival Lent 2014: 16 days of hard work and so much fun - the photo story continues, this time including regional and one & only Rade Šerbedžija, ZMELKlasikOOW aka Zmelkoow, Bad Copy, John Lee Sanders, Vlado in Milan Kreslin and many, many more!

Festival Lent also included some great stand-up comedy and few Slovenian comedy theatre plays...

16 days of Festival Lent in Maribor also included many sporting events - as one of the official festival photographers, I covered some of them, including Jet ski Alpe Adria Tour 2014 and Slovenia Slack line Open 2014 competitions, and here are few chosen photographs from them.

Salon glasbenih umetnikov - Music Artist Salon 2014

16 days of Festival Lent also included classical concerts in the Dvorana Union (Union Hall) in Maribor.

26th Folkart & 50 years of KUD Študent ceremonial Academy

This years 26th Folkart International CIOFF® Folklore Festival, which is a sub-festival of Festival Lent, included seven folklore dance companies from whole world, plus, Maribor's own KUD Študent (The Cultural Art Association Študent) celebrated 50 years of continuous operation with a ceremonial Academy.

Festival Lent 2014: 16 days of hard work and so much fun - the photo story continues, this time including regional and local stars Elemental, Goblini, Đorđe Balašević, Los Hermanos muy simpaticos (muy simpaticos!) and many, many more!

Shooting 16 days lasting festival (!!) as one of the official photographers can be really tough, but a great joy, too! Here is the first gallery of photos from this years festival, others are following!

Made to Break, new exciting project of the legendary sax player Ken Vandermark start their european tour in Maribor!

Reut Regev is a known Israeli born, New York based, trombonist, composer and bandleader who presented us her critically acclaimed debut album "This is R*time" with great fellow musicians, as part of the Izzven festival.

Chick Corea Trio performing on my birthday in Maribor! :)

Great night with all-star jazz quintet consisting of legendary Ray Anderson on trombone, Paul van Kemenade (alto saxophone), Frank Möbus (guitar), Ernst Glerum (double bas) and 70 years old "forever young" Han Bennink on drums.

Evening of Polish culture in Maribor's Kino Udarnik featured the Trio of the famous Polish jazz pianist and composer Artur Dutkiewicz, finalist of the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington, USA.

Sold-out gig of an excellent rock-jazz quartet from Bristol, with Goldfrapp's Daisy Palmer on drums.

Latin sounds mixed with electronics and rap is what Dafnis Prietos Proverb Trio is all about - it really is a "afro-cuban jazz for the new millennium", as the PR announcement of the concert said.