Museums Night in Zadar

Bog svima! Hello everyone!

Today was I very nice, sunny day, just perfect for having a walk. In Zadar temperature is now something like 9-11C and what I noticed days there are very sunny. Sometimes I have a feeling that sun forgot about Poznań, so we really have to appreciate days like today.

In this post I want just to mention that two days ago in Zadar took place Museums night. It looks the same as in Poland: museums open their doors for a night visit of their exhibits. This event, this year attracted a record number of visitors. Visitors may visit Museum of Ancient Glass. Archeological Museum or National Museum Zadar. A huge advantage of Zadar is that the participating museums are in close distant to each other, within walking distance, which enables visitors to see more than just one museum on the evening of the event.

 More information about museums in Zadar you will find in the next post.

 For today this is all, I leave you with pictures of Zadar by night :)

Croatian music Part 2

Apart from pop, rock, jazz, and other kind of music singing in all countries, Croatia created its own, special type of music called klapa music (cr. Klapska glazba). The klapa music is a form of traditional a cappella singing mostly in Dalmatia region, however nowadays it can be sing in all coast regions or islands. The word klapa translates as "a group of friends" and traces its roots to littoral church singing. What is the most specific in that kind of music is that, it is sing only by men. It is very difficult to become a part of such a group, but when someone becomes a member it is a great honor for him and his family. The klapa group has a specify rules of singing voices, it consists of a first tenor, a second tenor, a baritone, and a bass. Although it is possible to double all the voices apart from the first tenor. Although klapa is a cappella music, on occasion it is possible to add a gentle guitar and a mandolin. I think that it is quite a amazing  thing that the klapa tradition is still very much alive, with new songs composed and festivals held. One of festival like this is The Festival of the Dalmatian Klapas in Omiš is the best known music festival and has a long tradition in Klapa music. 

Klapa  Šufit is my favourite one :) I hope you will like them as well :)

This is their most popular klapa song Do not hurt my love, it is incredibly beautiful :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ruZwwpbgk

That one is the first klapa song which I heard in my life and I consider it as the best one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39K24an6Oxs

What do you think about such kind of music?



 

Croatian music Part 1

As I wrote in the last post I am going to introduce you with Croatian music. This post will focuse on the most popular Croatian singer and the next one on national Croatian music.

The most popular singer, no1 star in Croatia is Severina. She is singing dance/pop music and I think we can compare her with our Doda several years ago. However Doda is not popular in Poland any more, Severina is well known not only in Croatia but also in all Balcan territory. Her pictures and songs are telling everything :) I have to add that I adore her and her songs :)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKs_7Tctho

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLkM5ZAwLY

One of the most popular groups in Croatia is Prljavo Kazaliste (ang. Dirty Theatre). They were more popular during 90. like our T-Love or Lady Pank, but nowadays they are well known as well. They music is rather rock one and lyric of their songs know just everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV38egxkrxI 

I thing that every country has it owns never-ending singer, who is known by every generation. We have Maryla Rodowicz and Krzysztof Krawczyk and Croatia has Oliver Dragijević. His songs are mostly about love, see and Dalmatia region.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lWgvFQX2MM

Lazy, rainy Sunday

Today’s Sunday do not convince us to go anywhere out, day is very dark and depresing…Wind, rain, than rain and wind…In such a day my mood is not in the highest level so I try to improve it as fast as possible. One of the best way to do it is listening to my favorite music, watching pictures of Zadar or both at the same time. On the Internet we can find many of good short movies which are really qualify and contain gorgeous pictures of Zadar.

This is one of the best set of Zadar’s pictures with very pleasant music in the background.
The name of the song is „Grad U Moru”(City in the see), by Tomislav Bralic.

I hope it makes your day a little bit better :)

P.S. In the next post I will familiarize you with Croatian music in a deeper extend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=easbzqmyEPk