“Todo Mundo Festival 2025”: The 13th Musical Refresh
Todo Mundo Festival celebrates its 13th edition with six musically diverse concerts, taking place across three Belgrade venues on September 25, 27, and 28, 2025.
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At the end of September, Belgrade’s concert scene will once again be enriched by unusual sounds rooted in diverse cultural heritages. The 13th Todo Mundo Festival will bring together performances of entirely different musical energies and aesthetics, united under the umbrella term “world music” or “global music” – a label increasingly used across European circles in recent years.
Over three festival evenings, audiences will have the rare opportunity to hear some of the most compelling voices on today’s global scene, and to explore music inspired by traditions from regions as varied as Styria, the Mediterranean, West Africa, Central Europe, and Turkey.
As always, the festival program is built primarily around projects that Belgrade and Serbian audiences have not yet had the chance to experience. This year’s edition features five Serbian premieres (some of them regional as well), out of a total of six concerts.
The festival opens on September 25 at Ložionica (Ulica ideja 2), a hub of creative industries and innovation. First to take the stage will be Austrian accordionist Jakob Steinkellner, a specialist in the sound, technique, and expressive range of the Styrian diatonic accordion. In addition to being a virtuoso performer and composer of his own music, Jakob is also professionally engaged in music therapy, working with people with special needs.
Following his solo performance, the evening continues with the quartet Tamala, made up of Senegalese and Belgian musicians. At its core is Mola Sylla, singer and multi-instrumentalist who builds many of his own instruments. Alongside him, kora virtuoso Bao Sissoko anchors the group’s West African sound, while Belgian musicians Olivier Vander Bauwede (harmonica) and Wouter Vandenabeele (violin) weave in different “languages” to create fresh, subtly pulsing, and irresistible music.
The second festival evening, after a Friday “day off”, will take place on Saturday, September 27, at the Czech Center (Svetozara Markovića Street 79). Dutch-Turkish-Italian AVA Trio crafts a complex sonic universe grounded in jazz, improvisation, and makam modes – a blend the group likes to describe as Mediterranean avant-garde. The trio is formed by musical erudites and virtuosos: Giuseppe Doronzo (baritone saxophone), Esat Ekincioglu (double bass), and Pino Basile (frame drums and cupaphone).
Also performing that evening is the Czech sextet Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTR, shifting the mood from the hypnotic Mediterranean into the heart of Central Europe. Their music is raw, powerful, and rhythmically driven, with strong Czech folk influences filtered through a rock sensibility. The audience can expect to be carried away by the energy, beauty, and rich instrumentation of their sound – and perhaps even be tempted to dance along.
Dancing will be inevitable at the festival’s closing night on Sunday, September 28, at Karmakoma club. From Hungary comes the quintet Nasip Kısmet, blending Anatolian lyrical poetry with the rhythmic and melodic twists of psychedelic rock and jazz. At the core of the band are siblings Arif Erdem Ocak (guitar, vocals) and Derya Ocak (vocals), joined by Hungarian jazz musicians Dávid Szegő (drums), Dániel Mester (saxophone, clarinet), and Márton Eged (bass guitar), who add their distinctive sound to the mix.
The festival will close with a party headlined by a special guest from France: DJ Click. Already well known to Serbian audiences from performances at Kustendorf, Exit, and Guča, DJ Click is an artist of unclassifiable style and boundless openness. His sets traverse techno-tribal, Balkan beats, tropical bass, electro-jazz, trip-hop, and more. Throughout his career he has also been active as a remixer, collaborating with major names such as Manu Chao, Watcha Clan, Mahala Raï Banda, La Caravane Passe, and many others.
Ticket price is 1,200 RSD per evening. The festival pass is 3,000 RSD. Tickets can be purchased via the website and at Tickets.rs outlets, or by email: todomundofestival@gmail.com.
The Todo Mundo Festival is organized by the Ring Ring Association in cooperation with the Music Information Centre of Serbia. The festival is supported by Sounds of Europe, UpBeat, Collegium Hungaricum, Czech Center Belgrade, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade, the French Institute in Serbia, Ložionica, Karmakoma, and Etnoumlje Magazine.
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🔗 Full program of “Todo Mundo 2025” available on the festival homepage
🔗 Facebook Event “Todo Mundo Festival 2025″
🔗 YouTube: Jakob Steinkellner ǀ Tamala ǀ AVA Trio ǀ Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTR ǀ
Lumpeks (photo: Hanna Linkowska)
