The Evenings of Dalmatian Chansons is a music festival of chansons from the Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n region of Dalmatia

Dalmatia

Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....

 held annually in Šibenik

Šibenik

Šibenik is a historic town in Croatia, with population of 51,553 . It is located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea...

. The festival occurs at the end of summer.

The festival is known for its high quality of songs, as well as being one of the few to avoid controversy, or scandal, in the nation. It is divided into two evenings. The first is the evening of old musical compositions while the second is the evening of new compositions.

Performers

• Arsen Dedić
  Arsen Dedic
  Arsen Dedić is a Croatian singer-songwriter who has been prominent in the Croatian as well as former Yugoslav music scene. Dedić writes and performs chansons as well as film music...
  
  
• Gabi Novak
  Gabi Novak
  Gabi Novak is a Croatian pop and jazz singer. She became famous in the 1960s.Gabi was born to a Croatian father and a German mother.She is married to Arsen Dedić, a renowned singer-songwriter who also composed many of her songs....
  
  
• Tereza Kesovija
  Tereza Kesovija
  Tereza Ana Kesovija is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, one of the most recognisable figures on the Balkan music scene, renowned for her wide vocal range and operatic style and one of the most important artists of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a very successful career in France...
  
  
• Kemal Monteno
  Kemal Monteno
  Kemal Monteno is a popular Bosnian singer-songwriter. He was born to an Italian father and a Bosniak mother. He recorded his first song Lidija in 1967 and has enjoyed a prosperous career in the former Yugoslavia...
  
  
• Radojka Šverko
• Ibrica Jusić
  Ibrica Jusić
  -Biography:He started his career in Dubrovnik in 1965. On invitation of composer Pero Gotovac he went in Zagreb. He was a winner on Zagreb Festival in 1968, he won with song "Celuloidni pajac"...
  
  
• Meri Cetinić
• Tedi Spalato
• Zorica Kondža
• Neno Belan
  Neno Belan
  Neno Belan is a Croatian rock musician, known as the frontman of Đavoli, as well as for his solo work.-Early career:Neno Belan started his career as a teenager in the band Losos, Kavijar i Marsovi Bizoni...
  
  
• Goran Karan
  Goran Karan
  Goran Karan , is a Croatian singer from Split. He specializes in songs influenced by Dalmatian folk music and is known for his powerful and refined tenor voice...
  
  
• Mladen Grdović
• Đani Maršan
• Ivo Pattiera
• Hari Rončević
• Maja Blagdan
  Maja Blagdan
  Maja Blagdan is a Croatian pop singer.She began her singing career in a rock band, Stijene, in 1986.Later she had a solo career. Her first solo album was released in 1993....