Ceca Draws 15,000 Fans to Kolasin Concert

Ceca Raznatovic’s concert in Kolasin drew around 15,000 people to Fighters’ Square on Saturday evening, August 15, according to media on the scene. That is roughly five times the population of the Montenegrin town.

The show was part of her The Best of tour. The stage was set up outdoors, in the square at the center of town. She walked out around 10 p.m. to a warm welcome from the crowd. Aerial footage released the same night showed the square filled to capacity.

How Many People Filled Fighters’ Square

Media covering the concert put the crowd at around 15,000. Even before the first song began, the giveaway was the traffic.

For hours before the show, traffic toward Kolasin slowed to a crawl, with a line of cars stretching along the road into town. Several Montenegrin pages posted footage of the jam on Instagram. Fighters’ Square sits right in the town center, so the gap between the local population and that night’s crowd was visible on every approach road.

According to reports from the scene, the crowd sang, danced and applauded all evening. The setlist spanned her whole career, drawing on songs from different periods. Among the numbers she performed were:

• Kukavica
• Nevaljala
• Trepni
• Beograd

First Concert There, Not Her First Visit

Six days before the show, on August 9, the singer told media she had never performed in Kolasin. At the time she was resting after a show in Budva.

I rested as much as I rested. I didn’t get to see enough of the sea, but never mind. What matters is that I recharged my batteries, my next show is in Kolasin. I don’t think I’ve ever sung in Kolasin, and it’s a real pleasure to go there after 38 years in this career.

Kolasin was not, however, an unfamiliar town to her. She shot the video for the song Zabranicu srcu da te voli there in 1989, from her second album, Ludo srce. Thirty seven years passed between that shoot and Saturday’s concert.

She gave the August 9 statement after a show at Top Hill, a club in Budva where she had two sold out concerts this summer and, according to media reports, broke her own attendance record. Kolasin was thus her third performance in Montenegro this summer.

After the concert, she released a short statement.

It was wonderful in Kolasin. I truly enjoyed myself, and I’m so glad we brought all of Montenegro together in one place.

Sneakers Instead of Heels

For the night, she skipped the heels. She wore wide legged black trousers with a white blazer trimmed in black, and wore her long hair straight down her back.

In place of heels she wore sneakers, barely visible beneath the wide trouser legs. Those wide black trousers were, according to media covering the show, the most noticeable part of the outfit.

Photos and footage from the concert went up the same night on Montenegrin and Serbian outlets, including the aerial shots that produced the crowd estimate.

For one night, Kolasin hosted several times more people than live there according to the census, and Ceca, by her own account, sang there for the first time in a 38 year career. Until Saturday, the only known visit she had made to the town was for that video shoot, back in 1989.