Pozarevac: Ten Bands Play to Restore Deliblato Sands
Kali Juga and the LADA Association are staging a two-day charity festival at Klub KB on October 2 and 3, raising money to reforest the Deliblato Sands reserve that burned this summer.
Klub KB in Pozarevac turns into a stage for ten bands on October 2 and 3, all playing toward the same cause: raising money to replant the Deliblato Sands, the nature reserve that burned this summer like never before. The debut edition of the event carries the name “Festival for the Protection of the Planet from People, Vol. I,” a title that works as a joke at its own organizers’ expense and a fairly serious diagnosis at once.
Behind the festival stand the band Kali Juga and the newly founded LADA Association for the Protection of the Planet from People. The goal, organizers say in their announcement, is quite specific.
The goal of the festival is to raise funds for restoring the Deliblato Sands nature reserve area, which suffered major damage during the wildfires of summer 2026.
The money collected then moves further, organizers say: it gets forwarded to the authorities in charge of restoring the reserve, in keeping with the restoration plans and programs set for the coming year. The association was not formed after a long stretch of planning but as a fast response to the damage the summer left behind, and when that kind of improvising starts from the music scene, it usually means one thing: someone decided that waiting on institutions is not the only option. “Where there are two, a third will follow, and one tree can get planted,” LADA says, and however much that line sounds like a slogan, it carries real weight here, an equation that starts from a single tree and a single person.
The music program splits across two days and ten names. On the first day, October 2, the lineup runs in this order:
- 7 PM, Pietreni
- 8 PM, Nikolas Boleslavski & Ljubazni Lesevi
- 9 PM, Sila
- 10 PM, The Fifth Rider
- 11 PM, Kali Juga
On the second day, October 3, the stage belongs to:
- 7 PM, Gravel Saints
- 8 PM, Koklok
- 9 PM, Corner
- 10 PM, Voidstout
- 11 PM, Vox Populi
Organizers warn that the schedule may still change, so anyone coming for a specific band should keep an eye out for updates right up to the day itself.
Instead of a regular ticket, the festival runs on donations. The minimum is 500 dinars per day, with 1,000 recommended, collected at the door of Klub KB on both days. Anyone who cannot make it to Pozarevac can donate directly to the Association, at account number 160-6000000780532-33, with the payment purpose listed as “Donation for the restoration of the Deliblato Sands.”
The scale of the work the money is meant to fund puts the festival in its proper perspective. Ecologists estimate that at least twenty years pass between the first planting and a fully reformed forest cover, a stretch of time longer than the band Kali Juga has even existed, and that is exactly why two days of concerts at Klub KB are not a gesture but only the start of something much slower. Ten bands will not bring the forest back over a weekend, but they do put the first payment toward the bill, and for the Deliblato Sands, after a summer like this one, that is already more than it has had so far.
