The 5th Thrill Blues Festival - Trilj Croatia: Three Days of Peace, Love, Blues Music and Special Guests

by Michael Limnios Blues Network

Apr 5, 2022

The 5th Thrill Blues Festival - Trilj Croatia
On July 1st, 2nd & 3th this year, the fifth open air Thrill Blues Festival (Croatia) will take place in Trilj city park by the Cetina River.
In the heart of Dalmatia, around 40 kilometers north of Split, on the shores of the Cetina River lies a town called Trilj. Apart from the natural beauties and rich cuisine, Trilj will become famous worldwide for the blues. An 3-days thematic program will make the blues music more familiar to all the visitors. 
Thrill Blues Festival is one of the youngest festivals here in Croatia but within the period of four years, as it has started, has become one of the most visited and media exposed blues festivals in Southern East Europe. In 2019  Festival was awarded as the best new festival in Europe, by French blues magazine Zicazine. Last year around 4000 people visited the festival, and was media covered by all national journals and national TV stations.
  
                                                                         

          5TH THRILL BLUES FESTIVAL PROGRAM  

1.7.2022. FRIDAY

11h - BLUES AT SCHOOL - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TRILJ

18 h - BLUES ART EXHIBITION BY DANUTA MATYSIK (POLAND) - CITY CINEMA

18.30h BLUES DOCUMENTARY “SONNYBOY IZ STUBNIČKE SLATINE“ – PARK EKRAN

19.30h ACOUSTIC ROOT BLUES SHOWCASE – STAGE B

CHARLIE & BELL BLUES EXPIRIENCE (CRO)

                                    DIK BANOVICH (USA)                                  

LOU & MEG (ITA/USA)

22.00h WELCOME JAM

2.7.2022 . SATURDAY      

18.30 BIG STAGE, CITY PARK

D'BLUZ

4 HOMBRES & FLOWERY + album promotion

ODIN & BAND

THRILL ALL STARS SHOWCASE

RALPH DE JONGH BAND (NED)

BARRY FINNERTY SUPERBAD FUNK MACHINE (USA/ITA)

NORMAN BEAKER TRIO (UK/CRO)

GISELE JACKSON & RAPHAEL WRESSNIG SOUL GIFT (USA/AUS)

3.7.2022. SUNDAY  

18.30h  BLUES RUN EVENING – STAGE B

START

DAVOR ŠTERN & SUPERSTARY

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

OZON

RAPTOR

VEDRAN BOŽIĆ & ROCK MASTERS

 Foto: Ivo Čagalj/Pixsell

Art director of Thrill Blues Festival, Boris Hrepić 'Hrepa' is a long time Croatian professional musician and multimedial artist,  well known as a co-founder and a member in one of the croatian most famous band „Daleka Obala“,  and as a blues artist, promoter and mentor. As blues duo Sunnysiders, along with Antonija Vrgoč Rola, they were semifinalists of 27th IBC, and till now they've recorded 4 albums. Their latest album, The Bridges, recorded with many croatian and international blues artists as guests, reached position 117 at Roots Music Report's Top 200 Contemporary Blues Albums for the year 2020 and received more than 40 great reviews from blues and rock magazines and portals from all over the world.