Dara Bubamara Cancels Four Budva Shows, Manager Explains
Dara Bubamara has pulled out of all her dates at a well-known Budva club during her summer tour. Manager Nenad Sipka insists the singer cancelled, not the venue, and lays out what caused the dispute.
- Dara Bubamara cancelled all her shows at a well-known Budva club during her summer tour of Montenegro, four dates in total.
- The venue had been counting on July 19, 25 and 31, plus August 5.
- The dispute began because the singer booked a daytime beach show in nearby Becici on the same day.
- Manager Nenad Sipka insists Dara cancelled, not the club, and that they treated the venue fairly.
Dara Bubamara has cancelled all of her shows at a well-known club in Budva during this year’s summer tour of Montenegro, her manager Nenad Sipka has confirmed. The four dates were already firmly written into the venue’s season, so news that she was walking away triggered a small drama between the singer, her management and the club.
The venue had expected Dara on July 19, 25 and 31, as well as on August 5. Instead of a full summer schedule, guests lost all of those nights at once. And when it comes to who actually walked out on whom, the two sides tell very different stories.
What broke the deal?
The sticking point is a single day and two locations. On that same date, Dara reportedly booked a daytime performance on the beach in Becici, which sits very close to the Budva club. The venue was not happy about it, arguing that she was splitting her audience and attention within the same window.
Manager Nenad Sipka sees things differently. He insists that Becici and Budva are not the same place, that these are two separate locations and therefore two separate jobs. As far as he is concerned, there is nothing improper about it and nothing unfair toward the club.
Sipka went a step further in his explanation. He stressed that they had been more than fair to the venue, since they never charged the club for accommodation or airfare. That, he says, is a sign of goodwill and a professional relationship, not the move of someone trying to create trouble or squeeze out better terms.
The core of his message is clear. Dara is the one who cancelled the shows, not a club that dropped her from the lineup. The order of events, management argues, works in the singer’s favour.
Who spoke out first about the cancellation?
Here timing plays a major role, because the whole story hinges on who went public first. According to management, Dara posted on Instagram around 5 p.m. and told her followers that there would be no shows at the Budva club.
The club released its own statement only later that evening. That is exactly the detail on which the manager builds his defence. If the singer drew the line first and announced it publicly several hours earlier, then, by that logic, she could not be the one who was cancelled, but the one who did the cancelling.
For fans who follow the Serbian scene, this is a classic summer tangle. Tours along the Montenegrin coast are lucrative and competition for dates is fierce, so minor scheduling mix-ups easily turn into a public quarrel. Dara is one of the most in-demand names of the season, which makes every move she pulls that much more visible.
For now, it is left to everyone to hear both sides and decide who to believe. Management is pushing its version with precise timestamps, while the venue stands by its claim that the singer behaved unfairly by agreeing to a daytime show next door on the very same day.
Do you think the singer had the right to perform in both Becici and Budva on the same day, or was the club justified in demanding exclusivity for that evening?
