Vojvodina Ethno Food and Music Festival 2008

Novi Sad "Strand" beach will host the annual seventh Vojvodina Ethno Food and Music Festival on June 28, 2008. The festival is organized by the America’s Development Foundation (ADF) and sponsored by the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina – the Provincial Secretariat for Economy and the City of Novi Sad – the City Council for Economy and Tourism.

The Festival will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Vojvodina Ethno Food and Music Festival displays the cultural heritage and richness of diversity of Vojvodina, simultaneously presenting a synthesis of numerous local festivals famous for traditional food, music, dances, and handicraft, all in one place in a single day. By showcasing local events, products, and municipal tourist offers, this unique “Festival of Festivals” seeks to contribute to tourism development and to economic growth of local communities.

Last year Vojvodina Ethno Food and Music Festival in Novi Sad hosted more than 1,200 performers from 40 music and dance groups as well as 1,000 stand participants from 80 places from Vojvodina and eastern Serbia presenting a variety of dishes and artifacts.  A program and products of such diversity attracted around 25,000 festival visitors.

Attendees, both visitors and participants alike, had the chance to experience culture from 15 ethnic groups – Serbs, Bunjevci, Croats, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Roma, Rumanians, Ruthenians, Slovaks, Sokci, Ukrainians, and Vlachs.

This unique manifestation, the only one of its kind in Serbia, offered visitors 200 popular and less known gastronomic specialties of local and ethnic cuisines to taste and enjoy, including:

• Different meat specialties - pork, beef, lamb, fish, venison, boar and snails, ostrich and frog legs as a novelty;
• A variety of smoked specialties;
• Cheeses from Banat, Backa and Srem;
• Salty and sweet patisserie: pies, strudels, sweet breads and, of course, pasta with poppy seeds;
• Ethno wine and brandies made of all sorts of fruit: quince, apricot, pear, apple, cherry, sour cherry, mulberry, and plum, and the savory honey brandy;
• Modern global trends in cuisine - healthy food.

The Festival additionally hosted famous events such as: Turija Sausage Festival, Kacarevo Bacon Festival, Melenci Shepherds Festival, Apatin Fish Evenings, Backi Petrovac “Kulen” Festival, and many other events.

All interested parties to participate at this year’s festival are invited to send their application.
<Click here to apply - music program>
<Click here to apply - stands>

Also, you are invited to support the sixth Vojvodina Ethno Food and Music Festival and become a sponsor. <Click here for more info>

Contact:

·         Helena Bakos,
phone: 011/344-0464; fax:011/344-0227;
mobile: 064/1915-253;
e-mail: hbakos@adfusa.org