Milica Pavlovic delays Modrac show after Elbrus tragedy
The singer moved her Lake Modrac concert from July 29 to July 30, announcing the change a day before the show. Five mountaineers from Zenica died on Mount Elbrus. Aca Pejovic was billed that night.
- Milica Pavlovic moved her Lake Modrac concert from July 29 to July 30.
- She announced the change on July 28, a day before the show, in a social media post.
- The reason is the death of five mountaineers from Zenica during an ascent of Mount Elbrus on Saturday, July 25.
- Aca Pejovic was billed to perform the same night at Modrac.
Milica Pavlovic has pushed her Lake Modrac concert back by one day, to July 30. She posted the announcement on July 28, the evening before the show that had been set for July 29.
The reason is the death of five mountaineers from Zenica, who were killed on Saturday, July 25, during an ascent of Mount Elbrus in Russia. Two members of the expedition survived.
This is how the singer put it:
Out of respect for the tragically killed citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for their families, and for the country where I always feel at home, the performance planned for tomorrow at Lake Modrac is cancelled and moved one day later
In the same post she addressed the families of the dead. “I offer my most sincere condolences to the families of those who died, with the wish that they find strength in these difficult moments,” she wrote.
Aca Pejovic had been billed for the same evening at Modrac.
Why moved rather than cancelled?
Because the post describes a one-day shift rather than a show taken off the calendar. Pavlovic uses both “cancelled” and “moved one day later” in a single sentence, and the practical result is that the July 29 programme now falls on July 30.
The audience feels that difference straight away. A lakeside summer show is something people plan days ahead, so a twenty-four hour shift keeps the concert while taking it out of the date originally advertised.
The window was tight. The accident happened on Saturday, July 25, the post came on Tuesday, July 28, and the concert had been set for Wednesday. Ticket holders were told roughly a day before showtime.
What else stopped in Zenica and Kakanj
Modrac is not the only programme rearranged after the Elbrus accident:
- The organising committee of the Zenica Summer Festival called off the rest of the festival programme.
- The concert by Dzejla Ramovic in Kakanj, part of the “Kakanjski dani 2026” event, was cancelled.
- The Milica Pavlovic and Aca Pejovic show at Modrac was moved to July 30.
Zenica is the home town of all five mountaineers, which is why the festival programme there stopped first. Kakanj sits in the same canton, about twenty kilometres away, and its own event lost its concert as well.
Two decisions in two days, both off the script
Our previous piece on Milica Pavlovic came from an entirely different scene. Only a day earlier, she stopped her concert in Kursumlija, walked into the crowd to hug a boy who was crying, then spoke to him from the stage in front of the whole square.
Two decisions in two days, both outside the fixed running order of a summer show. In Kursumlija she broke off a song. In Tuzla Canton she moved the entire concert.
There is a coincidence of names here too. In mid July the same singer talked about Dzejla Ramovic and her relationship, and now both of their Bosnian dates have stopped in the same week for the same reason.
Lake Modrac is a reservoir in Tuzla Canton and one of the busier summer concert spots in that part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The show now stands for July 30, and Pavlovic changed nothing in her announcement except the date.
