Schools and Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) are marking St. Sava’s Day today, honoring St. Sava who was the founder of education and church in these parts.
Schools mark the holiday as a feast day and students attend the traditional school celebration.
The Islamic Community in Serbia announced that it would inform international institutions of the problem of celebrating an Orthodox Christian holiday. The St. Sava Day is celebrated as a school feast day in Serbia, “a secular state”, said one of the country’s two rival Islamic communities, that headed by Mufti Muamer Zukorlić.
The recent eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland were a stark reminder of nature’s ability to bring human activity to an abrupt standstill. The cloud of smoke that drifted over Western Europe made aviation travel untenable, returning European skies to a quietude not felt for decades. Yet, while the effects of the eruption were [...]
DAMIEN JURADO AND HIS SAINT BARTLETT BAND ANNOUNCE UPCOMING U.S. TOUR
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In order to create a live reproduction of the grandiose recordings of his upcoming record, Saint
Bartlett, Damien
Jurado enlisted eight musicians from Seattle band Kay Kay and his Weathered
Underground to join him on tour as The Saint Bartlett Band. The resulting concerts will be unlike
anything Damien Jurado fans have seen before – the songs done justice with an orchestra adding violin, cello, tuba,
French horn and keys.
Saint Bartlett is now available for pre-order
here. All pre-orders receive an instant download of the album!
Saint Bartlett will be released by Secretly Canadian on May 25 in North America (May 24 in the U.K.).
Richard Swift, Damien’s Secretly Canadian Soul Brother, talented filmmaker and producer/engineer of
Saint Bartlett, has provided a couple of album trailers to get you officially stoked. Check this one out now:
Saint Bartlett Trailer #2 from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.
All concerts will be opened by a set from Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground:
5/29/10 Seattle, WA – Triple Door (release party with additional players)
6/02/10 Boise, ID – Neurolux
6/03/10 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
6/04/10 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
6/05/10 Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theater
6/06/10 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
6/07/10 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
6/08/10 Milwaukee, WI – Mad Planet
6/09/10 Chicago, IL – Schubas
6/10/10 Louisville, KY – 930 Listening Room
6/11/10 Cincinnati, OH – Northgate Tavern
6/12/10 Indianapolis, IN – IMAF Festival
6/13/10 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
6/14/10 Columbus, OH – The Treehouse
6/15/10 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
6/16/10 Cambridge, MA – TT The Bears
6/17/10 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
6/18/10 Brooklyn, NY – Littlefield
6/19/10 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
6/20/10 Arlington, VA – IOTA
6/21/10 Charlottesville, VA – Random Row Books
6/22/10 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
6/23/10 Nashville, TN – The End
6/24/10 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree
6/26/10 Austin, TX – Club DeVille
6/28/10 Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room
6/29/10 San Diego, CA The Casbah
6/30/10 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
7/01/10 Visalia, CA – The Cellar Door
7/02/10 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
7/03/10 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
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The Serbian police (MUP) Special Antiterrorist Unit (SAJ) today marked St. Michael the Archangel, its patron saint day. The unit’s base in the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica welcomed Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić, and three Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) bishops: Irinej, Grigorije and Longin.
