Morgan Cultural Association

Contact

Kulturno umetniško društvo Morgan

Ledine 105a, SI-5000 Nova Gorica

kud.morgan@gmail.com

Tadej Stolič, Head

Founded in 2012 and headed by critic, producer and musicologist Tadej Stolič, Morgan Cultural Association (KUD Morgan) is one of the main organisers of live music events in Nova Gorica and the surrounding region, with a particular focus on jazz, folk, world and Slovenian music. Starting with the Music of the World Festival (Glasbe sveta) in 2012, the association has since steadily added other concert cycles and festivals to its roster, most of which have subsequently been brought under the regionally focused Pretočnica banner.

Festivals and concert cycles

Although KUD Morgan was involved from the start, the Music of the World Festival was inaugurated in 2013 at the initiative of the late Andrej Malnič, long-time director of the Goriška Museum, partly as a way of increasing the profile of the museum's main site at Kromberk Castle. The festival, generally held throughout August, has focused on high-profile home-grown acts (Boštjan Gombač, Uršula Ramoveš in fantje z Jazbecove grape, Vasko Atanasovski, Brina Vogelnik and Neca Falk, among others), although room has also been found for global names, such as Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu (2013), Swiss-Albanian singer Elina Duni (2015) and Hamid Drake, widely regarded as the world's best jazz percussionist (2020).

The first five editions took place exclusively at Kromberk Castle, with the sixth being split with the atrium of the Municipality of Nova Gorica building in the centre of the city. The festival fittingly returned wholly to Kromberk in 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The 2019 edition

See also

• Music of the World Festival
• Kromberk Castle
• Goriška Museum
• Sanje v Medani
• Municipality of Nova Gorica
• Ministry of Culture
• SNG Nova Gorica
• Mostovna Cultural Centre