Katarina Juvančič – singer-songwriter, music writer and music anthropologist – and Dejan Lapanja have worked as a duo since late 2009, when they attracted media attention with the folk-rock song Uej Uej (Magdalenca), which made it to the compilation of the Val 202 radioprogramme called Val 09: Imamo dobro glasbo (We have good music). In June 2010 and August 2012, they were awarded at Kanfest – the international singer-songwriter festival in Ruše. Katarina Juvančič vests in music overlooked voices of women, bridging ethnography and poetry, modern trends and folk influences and sensibilities, but she is also no stranger to a more socially engaged poetics. Her rework of the American trade-union song Which Side Are You On? was sung at the winter protests in Ljubljana. Katarina’s stories and protagonists are subtly arranged by the versatile musician and producer

Dejan Lapanja, who learned the ropes in the legendary bands Olivija and Bast. He currently also plays in the Vasko Atanasovski Trio, the experimental music collective Salamandra Salamandra (as a drummer) and in a duo with renowned Slovenian singer Severa Gjurin.

Web: katarina-dejan.com

Price: € 7, € 5 (students and pensioners upon submission of an identity card, and self-employed in culture), unemployed free entry.

Photo: Janez Pelko.
Organisation: City of Women; in collaboration with: Menza pri koritu.