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The Sound of 600,000 Trumpets

If your idea of heaven is spending several days in a small town in Serbia in with 600,000 trumpeters — and how could it not be! — get yourself to Guča. This Serbian town of 2.000 hosts the brassiest of all international annual festivals, attracting every trumpeter in the known universe, and no doubt a few from other dimensions. Brass bands from all over come to Guča to connect with their people. This Portuguese brass band, Kumpania Algazzara, holds it own.