Summer Night

Name: Summer Night
Start: 2026-06-30T20:45:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-30T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Kongresni trg Square SilverStripe\View\ArrayData

Oto Pestner - 70 years as part of the Ljubljana Festival

30 Jun 2026, 20:45-23:00

Kongresni trg Square, Centre, 1000 Ljubljana

This year’s Summer Night is dedicated to an important milestone in the life of one of the key figures of Slovene popular music – the singer and writer of many popular hits – as some of Slovenia’s top singers pay homage to Oto Pestner on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

The gala concert in Congress Square will feature a selection of Oto’s biggest hits as performer or writer, accompanied by the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and RTV Slovenia Big Band conducted by Patrik Greblo. We will hear rich orchestral arrangements of legendary songs such as: Trideset let (Thirty years), Bisere imaš v očeh (You have pearls in your eyes), Vrača se pomlad (Spring is returning), Mati, bodiva prijatelja (Mother, let’s be friends), Šepet poletnih trav (The whisper of summer grasses), Vse je lepše, ker te ljubim (Everything is more beautiful because I love you), Vrniva se na najino obalo (Let us return to our seashore), Violine v mojem srcu (Violins in my heart), Tvoje solze (Your tears), Poštar zvoni samo dvakrat (The postman only rings twice), and many others.

The concert will be filmed by TV Slovenia and broadcast live by Radio Slovenia. The musical journey through Oto Pestner’s rich and diverse musical treasury will once again conclude with Elza Budau and Mojmir Sepe’s song Poletna noč (Summer Night), which gives this annual event its name.