Guitar player Samo Šalamon (1978), whose illustrious teachers include John Scofield, has built a distinguished international career. In 2008, Šalamon was selected as one of the world’s ten hottest new guitarists by the Guitar Player magazine. Three of his albums, Ela’s Dream (Splasc(h), 2005), Government Cheese (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006) and Ornethology (Samo Records, 2003), were given the highest rating (four stars) by The Penguin Guide to Jazz, a reference work containing a directory of jazz recordings, while Ornethology have been included in The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums.

Samo Vovk is active as a musician, singer, arranger, producer, guitarist, and pianist. He started to practice singing more seriously during his student years, when he entered the world of a cappella music through the Perpetuum Jazzile choir. He also began to teach himself music arrangement and jazz harmony. He is currently the artistic leader and arranger for the Vokalni band Kreativo a cappella ensemble. As an arranger and composer, he previously also collaborated with other a cappella groups and choirs both at home and abroad. Since 2012, he plays guitar in a duo with his wife, violist Barbara Grahor Vovk.

Samokres is a modern instrumental rock’n’roll funk quartet from the Goriška region of Slovenia. Their music blends fierce groove-driven riffs, tight rhythmic interplay, and moments of laid-back flow into a dynamic and energetic soundscape. Drawing inspiration from the legacy of guitar music while pushing it into the 21st century, Samokres crafts powerful, genre-bending rock that thrives in live performance.

Samuel Blues is a singer-songwriter from Jesenice and one of the most prominent figures in the Slovenian singer-songwriter scene. He is known for his unique style, raw and deeply hypnotic music, and raspy voice. On stage, he captivates with his sincere and approachable presence, while impressing as a guitarist and vocalist.

Samuel Blues & Miha Erich’s stage presence echoes in the piercing rhythms of intertwining chords and slides, accumulating in tonal cries of the accomplished, raw, gentle and vigorous blues-rock harmonica. The musicians have asserted themselves as the most original and talented representatives of Slovenian blues rock. If the harmonica never goes quiet and the percussive foot-stomping, the sounds of a slide guitar and husky singing refuse to stop, you can be sure that it’s none other than the blues duo consisting of Samuel Blues and Miha Erich.

Samuel Lucas interprets music as though each song were his own, or vice-versa, as though he belonged to each song. In his more than 30-year-long music career, he gathered experience on countless Slovenian and European stages.

San Di Ego is a rock band formed at the start of 2013 and comprises four experienced musicians.

Sandra Feketija is a Slovenian singer, best known as an outstanding backing vocalist. She performed as a backing vocalist at the Eurovision Song Contest four times: for Rebeka Dremelj (2008), Quartissimo (2009), Maja Keuc (2011), and Eva Boto (2012). She was also an alto, soloist, and vocal coach with the group Perpetuum Jazzile. Feketija has collaborated with many Slovenian artists, including Uroš Perić, Oto Pestner, Nuša Derenda, Rebeka Dremelj, Tabu, and Nuška Drašček. In addition to her music career, she is a teacher of English and German and runs a language studio in Celje.

The choir Sankofa has been active since 2009. The choir unites singers of African descent with their Slovenian and international counterparts in the celebration of the African choral tradition. ‘Sankofa’” is a metaphorical symbol used by the Akan people of Ghana; it expresses the importance of reaching back to the knowledge gained in the past and connecting it with the present. The choir’s musical output thus features both traditional and modern musical languages