2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Dubioza Kolektiv

Thursday, March 17
5:00PM - 5:40PM

Artist-2670

Listen to NO ESCAPE (from Balkan)

To the uninitiated, Dubioza Kolektiv are a band from Bosnia known for their fresh take on hip-hop, reggae, dub, rock and Bosnian folklore. However, outside “The West”, the group has already established itself as among the best and most popular live outfits in Eastern Europe, and notorious leaders in the fight for social change. They are also nominees for IMPALA’s “Best Independent Album of 2011.” Their musical skills forged in basement shelters during the siege of Sarajevo, these guys know more than anyone how to use music as a weapon against the forces of negativity.

DK is well known in Bosnia for practicing what they preach, lending support to Bosnia’s first grass-roots civil society group “Dosta” by organizing a huge protest concert before 2006 general elections. Their album release party for their fourth album “Firma Ilegal” took place in front of the Bosnian Parliament, in a powerful statement against government cor...

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Sarajevo, BOSNIA
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