Author: Andrija Igić
Place: Kosovo*
Date: 21 June 2010
The northern part of the divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica in Kosovo was host to this year's eighth annual North City Jazz and Blues Festival, which gathered nearly a dozen domestic and foreign artists, including Frank Lacy, Tony Lacatos, and Triphasic. Locals flocked to the culture center in Zvečan, a Mitrovica suburb, to attend the international music festival, which was opened this year by Kosovo-born musician Petar Rakić and the Nušić chorus from Mitrovica, who gave the stage to Frank Lacy and Dušan Novakov Quartet as the evening progressed