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- Festival Omladina (English: Youth Festival), also known as Omladinski Festival, is a music festival held in Subotica, Serbia. The festival was founded in 1961 as a competition of young composers of popular music. Their compositions were initially performed by pop singers, but soon the performers of competing compositions became rock bands. In the 1970s, the non-competitive part, featuring established rock acts, was added to the program, and in the 1980s the festival became a competition of young rock bands. During the years, some of the most notable acts of the Yugoslav pop and rock scene performed on the festival. In 1990, at the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the festival ceased to exist. In 2011 the festival anniversary was celebrated with a concert of famous acts who made their first steps on the festival, and in 2012 the festival was reestablished. (en)
- Омладинский фестиваль, также Фестиваль Омладина — югославский и сербский конкурс песни, который проводится ежегодно в мае в городе Суботица на территории современной Сербии. (ru)
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- The festival in Subotica was a key event, because we spent several days with those guys [from other bands], and those several days seemed like several weeks. It was very motivating [...] we were some sort of new-found heroes to each others, and we tried to live up to that heroic mission. (en)
- Omladinski festival was considered something you had to pass through in order to appear on our scene. It was a dream of all of us who played guitars on stairs [of public buildings] and in passages. Couple of times I was naive enough to send my works, believing that sent works are carefully revised by some commission before the invitations are sent, but I actually got the first invitation after some of my, let's say hits brought me some attention, first "U razdeljak te ljubim" with Žetva [...] then "Prva ljubav" with Rani Mraz, and then I got the invitation, 'come, the Subotica Theatre'... No one even asked me what we [Rani Mraz] would perform, I brought some three or four songs, one of them was "Računajte na nas", a song which, at that point and in that place, had a terrific effect, because at that time we all loved that country. It wasn't a regime, a communist song, later it became a little twisted, it got some other tags, and I stopped performing it when I realized that it was turned into a motto, but at that point... That year on the festival were Galija, Atomsko Sklonište, some people who later had huge success, everybody was backstage and I remember that everyone was on the verge of tears... (en)
- It never happened before, nor will it happen again, that this number of hot, new performers arrived to Subotica. This edition of the festival would be remembered as exceptional in every way, including the date – the festival was regularly held in May, in accordance with the practice of holding youth events in the month of relay and Tito's birthday. But that year, May was the month of nationwide grief, so Omladina Festival was moved to autumn. Thanks to that moving, a lot of bands who were, during the spring of that year, just making their first steps entered the program: Električni Orgazam, Idoli, Šarlo Akrobata, Haustor, and if we add Film and Na Lepem Prijazni [...] it becomes clear that Subotica in the autumn of 1980 was one of the most interesting and most important meeting points in the history of Yugoslav rock. Most of those musicians, arriving from different cities, would meet each others and hear each others perform for the first time here. Fuzzy ideas musicians from Zagreb had about the new scene in Belgrade – and vice verca – will be given image and tone here. (en)
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- Омладинский фестиваль, также Фестиваль Омладина — югославский и сербский конкурс песни, который проводится ежегодно в мае в городе Суботица на территории современной Сербии. (ru)
- Festival Omladina (English: Youth Festival), also known as Omladinski Festival, is a music festival held in Subotica, Serbia. The festival was founded in 1961 as a competition of young composers of popular music. Their compositions were initially performed by pop singers, but soon the performers of competing compositions became rock bands. In the 1970s, the non-competitive part, featuring established rock acts, was added to the program, and in the 1980s the festival became a competition of young rock bands. During the years, some of the most notable acts of the Yugoslav pop and rock scene performed on the festival. (en)
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