Cana to Arrive by Helicopter at Sabac Fair

Singer Stanojka Mitrovic Cana is arriving at her performance at the Sabac Fair by helicopter. Kurir has learned exclusively that the arrival is set for Friday, September 18, the same day as her performance at this year’s event.

Cana arranged with the organizers to arrive at the fair from the air instead of taking the route performers usually use to reach the stage. Organizers are now choosing the best and safest location for the helicopter to land, since the site has to be safe both for the singer and crew and for the crowd already gathering at the fair in those days.

Kurir’s newsroom contacted the singer to check the report of her arriving by helicopter. Cana gave a brief, cryptic answer:

“Expect the unexpected, and see you there!”

Informer, which also carried the story, describes the same conversation somewhat differently: according to their account, Cana neither confirmed nor denied Kurir’s report about the helicopter arrival on that occasion, even though she said that very sentence. There is no official confirmation from her team so far, and neither outlet reports that the singer directly said the helicopter is actually coming.

Where will the helicopter land?

The exact landing site is not yet known. Organizers of the Sabac Fair are weighing several possible spots near the event and will make the call only once they judge it safe for everyone present. The exact time of Cana’s performance has not been announced either, so for now the audience only knows it falls on Friday evening, September 18.

The singer will perform that evening under the white tent, where organizers expect a large crowd and the kind of fair atmosphere that runs late into the night. She will share the stage with a few other performers, though their names have not been announced in either of the two outlets that reported the story.

The helicopter arrival is not a random move. The singer has been known for years for unusual entrances at her own shows, each one drawing the attention of the audience and the media before she even steps up to the microphone. She has previously arrived at performances on a semi-trailer truck and in other unusual vehicles, and every such entrance has further raised interest in the concert itself. Arriving from the air, if it happens as announced, would be a new step in that tradition for her, since she has never mentioned a helicopter for any earlier performance.

Organizing an arrival like this is not simple. Landing a helicopter in an area where a large number of fairgoers are gathered at the same time requires coordination with the relevant authorities and a precisely defined corridor, which explains why the location has not been confirmed just days before the event itself. Organizers plainly want the spectacle to put no one at the fair that Friday at risk.

The Sabac Fair is one of the events that draws a large number of visitors from across Serbia every year, with a music program that traditionally runs late into the night. Cana’s performance under the white tent has been billed as one of the evening’s main draws, and judging by the announcements about her helicopter arrival, organizers are counting on her entrance being the thing people talk about longest.

The audience at the Sabac Fair will find out on Friday evening whether the announcement holds up the way the singer promised, and whether the helicopter actually lands before Cana takes the stage.