The Radovljica Festival has been held in the Medieval town of Radovljica each August since 1983. While reputed for its early music orientation, the festival has recently included rarely performed nineteenth- and twentieth-century works, frequently played on period instruments.

The Kranj-based Raggalution have been mixing their reggae-infused concoction, spiced with dub, funk and a sprinkling of psychedelia since 2011. Touring extensively from Greece to The Netherlands, Raggalution’s first studio album, “Mask of Liberty” (2013), reached wide European audiences. Raggalution are currently promoting their second album, “Gatekeeper” (April 2017), at venues across Europe.

Raiven is an academically trained singer and harpist. She leaves her musical mark as a classical musician and in particular on the contemporary electro pop scene. Even though she is accompanied on stage by her electronic music band, the harp remains her indispensable instrument of choice.

Veronika Černe aka Raketa is one of the most prominent Slovenian DJs of the younger generation. She is a member of the Basolovka collective, a project manager at the youth centre Mladinska postaja Moste, a radio technician, a music journalist and the host on the Vibe Check show on Radio Študent. As a representative of Ljubljana’s underground community, she wants to provide a platform to local and like-minded DJs and artists that make up the Slovenian electronic music scene. When behind the decks, she bets on genres like electro, ghettotech, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, jungle and grime.

Real Life Version were formed in 2005. Since recording their first album, “Resistance from Within” (self-release, 2009), the band have gone on several short and long tours of Europe (Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, England, France, Belgium). Their music is an idiosyncratic blend of punk-rock and melodic hardcore, spiced with politically charged and socially conscious lyrics.

With her extraordinary debut album, Prelude, young Slovenian pianist Rebeka Rusjan Zajc (now residing in Amsterdam), announces herself as a precocious new talent, already forging her own distinctive art language, navigating the bountiful margins between non-idiomatic improvisation, jazz and classical music.

Launched in 2000, the annual Rdeče zore (Red Dawns) International Feminist and Queer Festival is held in Ljubljana in early March.

While primarily a sports venue, the hall (dimensions: 66m x 66m) occasionally hosts pop-music concerts. Location: Velenje

Young Ljubljana band Regen blends folktronica with indie rock. Their dreamy compositions are based on a minimalistic sound of guitars and synths as well as melancholic vocals.