October 4 @ 16:00 – October 5 @ 22:00

This year, once again, in the historic Poljica Principality, LegendFest – the festival of legends, myths, and folk tales – will take place. The event is organized by the Zagreb-based association Val Kulture in cooperation with the Local Committee of Tugare.

Last year, LegendFest was held in the ethno village Dolovi in Srijane (Upper Poljica), and this year the festival moves to the eco-ethno village Čažin Dolac in Tugare (Middle Poljica). It will take place on October 4 and 5.

The focus of this year’s festival will be Croatian traditional instruments. Alongside lectures and concerts on the theme, visitors will also be able to enjoy the LegendExpo exhibition and the LegendSajam fair, where local family farms (OPGs) will offer their homemade products. There will also be demonstrations of traditional shoemaking (opanci), the craft of weaving krtola (willow baskets), while the medieval knights’ association St. Nicholas from Varaždin will stage a medieval battle and display period military equipment. The Klis Uskoks association will run archery workshops throughout both festival days.

Visitors will have the opportunity to attend lectures by:

• ethnologist Katarina Dimšić from Osijek,
• Herzegovinian ethnomusicologist, traditional musician and ganga singer Jure Miloš,
• ethnologist and traditional musician Dominik Šćurić,
• Istrian traditional musician Zoran Karlić,
• and cultural anthropologist from Poljica Snježana Kordun.

The music program will feature concerts by:

• Imgellad (Celtic music),
• Lidija Bajuk,
• musicians performing a variety of Croatian traditional instruments,
• the mixed vocal ensemble Šuferini,
• and the ensemble Plet (traditional singing and chants from Upper Poljica).

For the first time, LegendFest will have its own “patrons” – pioneers of the Croatian ethno scene Lidija Bajuk and Mojmir Novaković, as well as an honorary guest.

This year too, LegendFest in Poljica is organized with the support of the Split-Dalmatia County, the Tourist Board of Split-Dalmatia County, the City of Omiš, and the Tourist Board of the City of Omiš.