The Začarani krug Tour was a tour by Bosnian singer Lepa Brena, and was staged in support of her sixteenth studio album, Začarani krug (2011). Comprising 104 shows, the tour visited Europe and North America. It began on October 20, 2011, in Belgrade, Serbia, at the Kombank Arena and concluded on September 29, 2017, in London, England at Troxy. During the tour she held the biggest concert of her career. The concert in Prilep was attended by more than 200,000 people. It was officially announced in May 2011, with dates for Balkan venues revealed. The tour was also included some festival concerts.
Background
On May 4, 2011, Brena announced a concert at the Belgrade Arena for her 51st birthday, October 20, 2011. She revealed that the concert was planned to be held at the Maracana Stadium on June 10, 2011, but because of the fear of rain, she decided for Arena. Due to great interest, she soon added another concert for October 21. At the end of September it is planned to add a third concert, but because of the exhaustion from the concert rehearsal, Brena gave up this idea. On October 24, 2011, she announced a concert in Sofia at Arena Armeec, December 3, 2011. It was her first concert in Bulgaria after 20 years, when she last sang at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in front of more than 110,000 people.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: At the same time, concerts in Niš, Vienna, as well as concerts for the New Year in Petrovac were announced. At the end of October, dates for North America for the spring of 2012 have been announced. It was Brena's first tour in America after almost ten years.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: The continuation of the European part of the tour she began in Ljubljana on May 19, where she last performed during the Uđi slobodno Tour. Concerts in Novi Bečej, Banja Luka and Berlin were canceled because Brena's activated the thrombus and she ended up at the hospital, followed by a long recovery. The tour continued in December. Začarani krug Tour returned to North America in May 2013. The concert in Novi Sad on February 14, 2014, was announced at the end of 2013. It was Brena's first concert in Novi Sad in 20 years. Due to great interest for the concert in December 2011, Brena announced another concert in Sofia at the Arena Armeec on October 22, 2015. At the end of June 2017, Brena announced a concert in London for September 29 in which she will perform after fifteen years.http://www.eventim.co.uk/tickets.html?affiliate=PP2&doc=erdetaila&fun=erdetail&erid=1963465&SEC-400000251-GOO-[_Generic_-_DSA]-[178939053023]-S-[]
Problems with the concert in Timișoara
On March 12, 2012, Lepa Brena announced a concert in Timișoara at the Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu, on June 15, 2012, where she sang in the same place 28 years ago in front of 60,000 people.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Lepa Brena was greeted with the highest honor at the border as soon as she reached the soil of Romania. Blinded cars and police security, flowers and honors that fit a world champion are just a detail that illustrates how the Romanians are seeing a star from a neighboring country. Under the special police escort, Brena came to Timișoara where she held a press conference for Romanian media related to the concert that will be held in this city on June 15, 2012. When she arrived in front of the hotel "Timișoara", Brena literally surrounded photographers and journalists from all over Romania. Since she was singing as a girl in Timișoara, for Brena this was a touching encounter with the Romans who followed her career all these years. Atmosphere at the press conference brought our singer, and at one point she sang the song "Ja nemam drugi dom"! Brena told reporters: "I must admit, when I saw flowers at the entrance to Romania, tears began because I remembered in 1984 when I was last here. I just returned all my memories." However, on June 13, 2012, was announced that the concert is scheduled for June 29, 2012 for technical reasons. The concert organizer told local media that they were forced to cancel the concert because of the rain that had fallen in the past days. "It was not possible to place an extremely demanding stage design and scenography, which will cause the Serbian folk star to appear in a delayed term, in two weeks, in front of the Romanian audience." One of the organizers of this spectacle, Aleksandar Tamaš, pointed out that 70% of tickets were sold and that the purchased tickets will be valid for the new term. On June 26, 2012, the newspaper posted that the announced Lepa Brena concert in Timișoara on June 29, 2012, was canceled. This time the reason for the postponement of the concert is not of a technical nature, but the stadium from 25 to 29 June is reserved for football matches, and because of that, it is not possible to keep the stage and hold the concert. After a few days, Lepa Brena said that she was very disappointed and would gladly schedule a new concert, but when she found a new and serious organizer for the concert.
Set list This setlist was obtained from the concert of October 20, 2011 held at Belgrade Arena in Belgrade. It does not represent all shows throughout the tour.
"Video Introduction" "Uradi to" "Metak sa posvetom" "Uđi slobodno" "Bato, Bato" "Grad" "Biseru beli" "Recite mu da ga volim" "Sanjam" "Robinja" "Luda za tobom" "Ti si moj greh" "Čik pogodi" "Šeik" "Udri Mujo" "Igraj Boro moje oro" "Jugoslovenka" "Ja nemam drugi dom" "Okrećeš mi leđa" "Golube" "Evo, zima će" "Pazi kome zavidiš" "Briši me" "Noćas mi srce pati" "Biber" "Čačak, Čačak" "Mile voli disko" "Janoš" "Duge noge" "Sitnije, Cile, sitnije" "Dama iz Londona" "Miki Mićo" "Hajde da se volimo" "Nežna žena" "Poželi sreću drugima" "Mače moje" "Perice, moja merice" "Pariski lokal" "Stakleno zvono"
Shows + List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold Date City Country Venue Attendance Europe20 October 2011BelgradeSerbiaBelgrade Arena40,00021 October 201119 November 2011ViennaAustriaPrater Gallerien4,5003 December 2011SofiaBulgariaArena Armeec20,0008 December 2011NišSerbiaČair Sports Center7,00031 December 2011PetrovacMontenegroHotel "Palas"6,0001 January 201224 February 2012MunichGermanyClub "Klangwlt"3,00025 February 2012DüsseldorfClub Ambis3,5002 March 2012SalzburgAustriaDiscoteka Triebwerk West3,0003 March 2012DietikonSwitzerlandStadthalle5,00031 March 2012BernDiskoteka Palma3,5007 April 2012HamburgGermanyStage Club Hamburg3,5008 April 2012BielefeldFarinda Club3,00027 April 2012NurembergDisco Rasha3,00028 April 2012HanoverClub Acanto3,200 North America4 May 2012St. LouisUnited StatesCasa Loma Ballroom3,0005 May 2012ChicagoBanquet Hall Hanging Gardens9,00011 May 2012DetroitRoyalty House3,50012 May 2012TorontoCanadaKool Haus7,00013 May 2012New York CityUnited StatesClub Pure3,500 Europehttp://www.slokoncerti.si/lepa-brena-19-5/ 19 May 2012LjubljanaSloveniaArena Stožice15,0002 June 2012ParisFranceDock Eiffel4,0009 June 2012ZürichSwitzerlandClub Face3,50012 July 2012Sanski MostBosnia and HerzegovinaDiscoteka Camel4,00015 July 2012PrilepMacedoniaBeerfest200,0001 December 2012DüsseldorfGermanyAmbis Club3,50031 December 2012BelgradeSerbiaGenex Impulse Hall4,5002 February 2013MontlingenSwitzerlandDisco Flash3,0008 March 2013MunichGermanyVIP Club3,5009 March 2013SattledtAustriaClub Nova2,00029 March 2013ZürichSwitzerlandClub JIL3,50030 March 2013HärkingenDisco Atlantis3,00026 April 2013ZagrebCroatiaClub Shamballa3,500 North America3 May 2013Los AngelesUnited StatesRoxbury Hollywood3,0004 May 2013San JoseTomba Club2,0008 May 2013Las VegasWish Vegas3,50010 May 2013Salt Lake CityRoyalty House2,50011 May 2013BoiseIdaho Ice World3,00017 May 2013Clive7 Flags Event Center3,50018 May 2013JacksonvilleClub Aqua3,50024 May 2013LynnSt. Michael's Hall3,00025 May 2013NorcrossGrand Ballroom3,00026 May 2013UticaDaniele's Banquet3,500 Europe23 August 2013LukavacBosnia and HerzegovinaArena Modrac15,00025 August 2013Novi BečejSerbiaVelikogospojinski dani70,00014 September 2013MunichGermanyVIP Club3,50027 September 2013MalmöSwedenAmiralen4,00028 September 2013StockholmHallunda4,50026 October 2013DietikonSwitzerlandStadthalle5,00030 October 2013BernDiskoteta Palma3,50031 December 2013BelgradeSerbiaCrowne Plaza7,0001 January 201414 February 2014Novi SadSPENS12,0008 March 2014KrnjakCroatiaStadion Krnjak5,00012 April 2014LjubljanaSloveniaGospodarsko razstavišče6,0003 June 2014Congress Square50,00018 June 2014DomašinecCroatiaŠampion Club5,00026 June 2014LukavacBosnia and HerzegovinaArena Modrac15,00029 June 2014ReșițaRomaniaTown square70,0004 October 2014ZürichSwitzerlandClub Face3,50018 October 2014ViennaAustriaLugner City5,0006 December 2014LucerneSwitzerlandD'Lux The Club3,00027 December 2014ČrnomeljSloveniaVeseli December v Črnomlju5,00031 January 2015HelsingborgSwedenSundspärlan 3,00013 February 2015TravnikBosnia and HerzegovinaClub Tron 2,50014 February 2015ŽiviniceDisco Pasha 2,50021 March 2015MunichGermanyHeide Volm 5,00015 May 2015ZagrebCroatiaThe Best discothèque 3,0006 June 2015WilSwitzerlandImperia Club 3,00031 July 2015MakarskaCroatiaPetar Pan Club 4,00028 August 2015Makedonska KamenicaMacedoniaTown square 25,00030 August 2015Novi Bečej SerbiaVelikogospojinski dani 80,00010 October 2015LjubljanaSloveniaGospodarsko razstavišče 6,00022 October 2015SofiaBulgariaArena Armeec 20,00014 November 2015ViennaAustriaAdmiral Dome 5,00018 December 2015ZenicaBosnia and HerzegovinaArena Zenica 10,00031 December 2015BelgradeSerbiaSquare in front of the National Assembly of Serbia 60,00013 February 2016StockholmSwedenBalkan Beat Cruise 5,00014 February 20165 March 2016PforzheimGermanyFlash Club 3,0002 April 2016BerlinUniversal Hall 5,0009 April 2016ZürichSwitzerlandClub Face 3,00014 May 2016GroesbeekNetherlandsSporthal Heuvelland 3,00020 May 2016BrusselsBelgiumThéâtre Saint-Michel 2,50028 May 2016OsloNorwaySamfunnssalen 3,00025 June 2016CeljeSloveniaCarraro Fest 10,00030 July 2016MostarBosnia and HerzegovinaAqua Park Havana 5,00027 August 2016WilSwitzerlandImperia Club 3,0004 November 2016PorečCroatiaPalazzo Club 3,0005 November 2016LinzAustriaClub Liberty 3,5003 December 2016StuttgartGermanyClub Metropola 3,50023 December 2016GothenburgSwedenTrädgårn 4,00024 December 2016DortmundGermanyClub Prisma 3,00031 December 2016ČačakSerbiaGradski Trg 10,00011 February 2017MunichGermanyPostpalast 4,0008 April 2017PlovdivBulgariaKolodruma Arena 5,00026 May 2017RosenheimGermanyLOFT Club 2,00027 May 2017DietikonSwitzerlandStadthalle 3,0008 July 2017KnjaževacSerbiaGurgusovačka kula 6,00029 July 2017OhridMacedoniaPlaža Gradište 3,00011 August 2017OrašjeBosnia and HerzegovinaSova Night Club 4,00016 September 2017ŠtipMacedoniaTown square 50,00029 September 2017LondonEnglandTroxy 4,000 Total 1,082,700
Cancelled shows + List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation Date City Country Venue Reason 15 June 2012 Timișoara Romania Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu Logistics difficulty 25 August 2012 Banja Luka Bosnia and Herzegovina AquanaRecovering from illness 26 August 2012 Novi Bečej Serbia Velikogospjinski dani 1 September 2012 Berlin Germany Universal hall25 July 2014MakarskaCroatiaPetar Pan Club Broke her arm26 July 201430 July 2014CazinBosnia and HerzegovinaHotel "Sedra"20 September 2014ViennaAustriaLugner City2 January 2015TravnikBosnia and HerzegovinaClub Tron Broke her wrist3 January 2015ŽiviniceDisco Pasha20 June 2015SkopjeMacedoniaPhilip II Arena Due to the unstable political situation and terrorist attacks in the country
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