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No Bowl Of Cherries For Bregovic
Top Serbian singer/songwriter Goran Bregovic was forced to cancel several shows including his headline appearance at Volt Festival after reportedly falling out of a tree while picking cherries in his back yard.
Volt booker Dan Panaitescu got Hungarian band The Hooligans to fill the slot while Bregovic, who has been a household name in the Balkans for more than three decades, recovers from a back injury.
The 16th staging of the 20,000-capacity event in the beautiful medieval Austro-Hungarian border town of Sopron, about 30 miles from Vienna and 40 from Bratislava, was sold out for the second year running.
The acts on the July 2-5 bill included The Offspring, Dreadzone, Manu Chao, Clawfinger, Cypress Hill, Roni Size Reprazent, The Exploited, Nouvelle Vague, Tiga and Señor Coconut.