page_title: Guča Trumpet Festival
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Guča Trumpet Festival / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Guca Trumpet Festival
context_page_description: The Guča Trumpet Festival, also known as the Dragačevski Sabor, is an annual brass band festival held in the town of Guča, near the city of Čačak, in the Dragačevo region of western Serbia. Guča is a three-hour bus ride from Belgrade.
  600,000 visitors make their way to the town of 2,000 inhabitants every year, both from Serbia and abroad. Elimination heats are held earlier in the year and only a few dozen bands qualify to compete. Guča's official festival has three parts, Friday's opening concert, Saturday night's celebrations and Sunday's competition. The Friday's concerts are held at the entrance to the official Guča Festival building. This event features previous winners, each band getting to play three tunes while folk dancers, all kitted out in bright knitting patterns, dance kolos and oros in front of a hyped-up audience.
  An English party site, ThisIsTheLife.com, has named Guča the best festival in the world.
  Forget Glastonbury, Reading, Burning Man and Coachella: the wildest music festival on earth is a cacophonic and crazy brass band festival that takes place every summer in the tiny Serbian town of Guča in the western region of Dragačevo.
caption: Scene from Boban Marković concert in 2008
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