With two great concerts in Vukovar; Balkan Streets Festival signed off for this year. Even though the rain and thunderstorms seemed to be following around in the last weeks, we’ve experienced many memorable moments.

Over 30 young musicians participated in the workshops on promotion, scene building and touring; we’ve seen very talented local bands perform; reached out to different and diverse communities and worked on lasting, sustainable partnerships with local and regional organisations and future Streets events.

Sennen in Vukovar

Frank Stevens, bass player of Sennen, introduced their final concert of the tour in the heavily damaged Radnicki Dom, a former cinema with spectacular acoustics, with the words ‘I don’t know when the last movie was shown here, but we’ll show one tonight’. With a big thunderstorm passing over Vukovar, and wind blowing through the big stone windowpanes, an unheimisch atmosphere was felt in the hall. Sennen’s instrumental show, supported by huge video projections on the brick wall behind them, was like a post-modern soundtrack perfect for this location.

This is one example out of many. Every Balkan Streets Festival event of this year brought us something new. We're currently uploading all the photo material to the Balkan Streets Festival website. Thank you Vranje, Gjilan, Skopje, Tešanj and Vukovar. See you all in 2011!