Nisville Jazz Festival

Nišville Production is a company specialized for organization and realization of all kinds of art festivals, which proved very successful even when very short periods of time are available for preparation.
Please contact us if you need any kind of festival organized. You will be required to supply one third of all the costs, to have at least a hazy idea of how the festival should look like and we will do our best to organize it in a very short period of time

The founder and the director of Nišville Production is Ivan Blagojević. Born in1959, he was conferred a degree at the Faculty of Economy in Niš. Until 1990 he had been a stage director. He received the Best Play and Director Award at the Regional Festival in 1985 for directing Daniil Ivanovich Kharms' Elizaveta Bam. He also received the Best Act award for Albert Camus' Le Malentenduand the Special Director Award in 1989 for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Schatten der Engel.

Nišville- International Jazz Festival  
This jazz festival was re-established on January 19th, 20th and 21st, 1995 after four years of pause following the death of one of its original founders, Bata Anastasijević. Today's Nišville main award is named after him. The re-established festival was held on two stages at the Niš Army Club and it was international.
So far, Bata Anastasijević Award was given to: Yildiz Ibrahimova (Turkey), Hannes Beckman (Germany), Antoni Donchev (Bulgaria), Hans Tessink (Austria), Stjepko Gut (Serbia), Bora Roković (Serbia), Billy Cobham (Panama). The result of each of the festivals is a compilation CD called The Best Of Nišville, containing one song of each of the participants.

January 13th 1998- Orthodox New Year Celebration
Orthodox New Year Celebration on January 13th 1998 is one of the events Nišville Production is very proud of. It in fact showed how the musical side of Niš should look like. That night, Niš confirmed that it is in no way worse than Belgrade. 
These were the participants: Kerber, Playboy, Novembar, Električni orgazam, Voodoo Popeye, OK connection, DLM, Babe, Vlada Divljan & All star band, Šaban Bajramovića Orchestra, Branko Church Choir, The Grand Voices of Bulgaria, Niš Chamber Music Orchestra.
The number of visitors : 120,000  
 
Nišville Production organized a great number of ballet performances, rock concerts and festivals, alternative theatre performances (including KPGT), classical music concerts and other artistic events.