The first "Devil's Wheel" festival was held. There were more than a thousand people. The highlight was the performance of tracks by the famous EKV. All this in a village close to Zaječar where the Gitariada was announced in a week
On Sunday, August 24 in Vražogrnec, directly before the Guitar Festival in Zaječar, the town next to which this village is located, hosted the first rock music festival. Where the rock festival in Vražogrnci comes from will be explained a little later.
The festival is called "Vražogrnački TočakRok", and it was organized by the members of the Association of Citizens for the Recovery of the Timok Valley, who are constantly doing all kinds of things around the area.
For the Chapel
For the festival, a stage was built in the center of the village called Kapela, where the playground is now, and where the remains of the school built in 1883 are.
Because of the reconstruction of the center, yesterday's festival was a donor event. Hence the motto "For the Chapel" - which implies the further arrangement of the area of that village square, and in the future perhaps the restoration of the collapsed building of the old school.
"We wanted to create some kind of basis for the amount we need to restore this house from the 19th century," journalist Božidar Andrejić, one of the initiators of the festival, told Vreme.
Professional/hobbyist/beginner musicians participated who, apart from rock, are connected by the village of Vražogrnac, where they were either born or still live there.
"That's also the answer to the question where does the rock come from in Vražogrnac," says Andrejić.
Local musicians
At the first edition of the festival, only some of them participated. Dragiša Lekić and his band (a native of this village, a well-known banker, a member of several bands from Zaječar) performed, among other things, a cover of the traditional song from Vražogrnac "Growing pumpkins on the dump", Mladen Žikić (a native of this village, an entrepreneur) and the band "Ekaver" played songs by the famous Ekaterina Velika, Vražogrnac rockers from the neighborhood of Kapela also performed, singer-songwriter Srđan Andrejević presented contemporary folk songs from region, there were also Dejan Najdanović Najda, a musician and at one time a member of "Smak", then "Drti band" from Zaječar, demo band "Kontrol" from Belgrade, high school band from Zaječar "Jutro"...
Ivana Rašić - famous Sajsi-Em Si, her father Jovan Rašić, the first singer of "Generation 5", Mladen Karić, an IT engineer who works from home in Vražogranec but also plays the guitar and composes, pop singer Željko Vasić...
It was exciting.
There were more than 1000 people in the audience. They came from the surrounding towns and from Zaječar, the older ones were more in the afternoon and the younger ones in the evening - they circulated.
"It was extremely exciting to listen to the songs of EKV, they united the old and the young, everyone sang and were one," says Andrejić.
He also highlights the cover of the song "Rasle tkeve na bunjište", which Vražogrnac put on the air during the time of the former extremely popular radio show "Minimax". Božidar Andrejić says that it is a somewhat lascivious song, it was performed by the Krančić-Pešić duo as part of the local Cultural and Artistic Society, Milovan Ilić Minimaks somehow heard them and invited them to the show, thanks to him they recorded a record for Zagreb's Jugoton and became famous throughout Yugoslavia, and now you can hear them on YouTube.
How it started
Božidar Andrejić reminds that this village already has a successful cultural and tourist event "Vražogrnački točak" which is included in the annual programs of the City of Zaječar and has been held with undiminished success for years.
"However, the conditions are ripe for the cultural and artistic, why not entertainment and tourist offer, to be expanded with another event that would be a step forward in a more innovative, modern, contemporary and social moment (cultural scene) with appropriate content, based on tradition and creatively connected with it," explains Andrejić.
"TočakRok is included in the program of the Zaječar Culture Center for this year, but it is currently held up by the pre-election and post-election situation," says Andrejić, and states that the festival is financed from the Association's own funds and sponsors.
The most important impression is that "TočakRok" was needed by the village. "This environment, which was waking up in spurts, but for example last year was in the phase of stagnation, can be revived with projects like this that lift it out of the everyday," concluded Božidar Andrejić.
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