Lets travel a little further south, towards central Serbia, more precisely to Čačak. And I think it is high time for your to get some hands-on experience. I shall teach you the music to Čačak, a Serbian dance. Here nobody is quite sure if the town was named after the dance or visa versa:
From there, we can travel 50km eastwards, to
Kragujevac, In a funny way, Kragujevac seems to be the birthing place of
talented accordionists, as during my own (real life) travels through Serbia,
every accordionist that I came across would, when asked, told me that they
originated from Kragujevac.
I was fortunate enough to play with Zika, alias Živorad
Nikolić, in the time before social media and easy videoing.
Ha! On my voyage into the depth of my hard drives, I found a video from my time playing with Zika: Here we
are performing a number of famous Serbian pieces, including Ederlezi, Tama
Daleko and Ajde Jano and in the village hall of Wood Norton on the 21st March
2008:
I think we can fit in one more destination for today:
Niš. I went there in 2008 to celebrate my late friend Gordana’s birthday.
Having always had a great but perhaps hidden interest in the gothic, I
particularly enjoyed seeing the Skull tower and the chandelier made of bullets:
When I travelled there in 2008, I had hoped to meet a
great Serbian Fiddle player called Alexandar Šišić. Sadly, Alexandar died just
a few weeks before I arrived, but I would love to celebrate him by sharing some
of his great music for us all to enjoy:
Another happy discovery from digging through my old archives. In this video I'm performing a Kolo by Alexandar Šišić. The music is also accompanied by a slide show of me and my fiddle through the years. This recording is unedited as it is from the years before everyone could edit things on their own computer, so you either paid for an expensive studio, or you hoped to play well in the first place :-)
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