New in the calendar: Young Dadi at T-Arena, Moonspell at MKC and Duper on tour through four cities

Dopamin hands the microphone to the crowd

Friday, October 16, is the closest of the new dates. Skopje band Dopamin, who played the White Night (Bela noḱ) main stage in front of the Opera on October 3, are running karaoke with live instruments at Public Room: the band plays, and anyone from the audience sings. It starts at 10 pm. If you have spent your whole life insisting your version beats the original, this is the night to prove it in front of witnesses.

Duper on tour through four cities

Pop duo Duper head out on an autumn tour of Macedonian towns: Strumica on November 20 at the "Anton Panov" cultural centre, Tetovo on November 21 at the "Iljo Anteski - Smok" Centre for Culture, Prilep on November 28 at the "Marko Cepenkov" cultural centre and Bitola on December 5 at the Centre for Culture. Boris Kakurinov and Ilčo Nečovski broke through in 2018 with "Ne sum tvoj tip" (I'm not your type), whose video passed three million YouTube views by 2021, and in 2019 they won Discovery of the Year at the Zlatna Buba Mara awards. Four cities in sixteen days, and not one of them is Skopje.

Pavle Kamiloski, from the ship to the Philharmonic

Pavle Kamiloski performs on December 4 at 8 pm in the main hall of the Macedonian Philharmonic, with a chamber string orchestra, a live band and special guests. The self-taught baritone with roots in Galičnik started out as a bartender on the British liner "Queen Mary 2", won a crew talent contest and left to study singing. In 2022 he went back aboard the "Queen Mary 2", this time with his own show. The Philharmonic programme mixes Italian canzoni, Macedonian evergreens and his own songs.

Young Dadi closes the year at T-Arena

Young Dadi plays on December 30 at 8 pm at T-Arena in the "Boris Trajkovski" Sports Centre. The Skopje songwriter started at 16, recording music on a tablet in GarageBand and posting it anonymously on SoundCloud, and the breakthrough came in 2019 with "Pina Colada". Seven years after that song, he sees the year out on the T-Arena stage.

Moonspell, 35 years on, at MKC

Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell play the Dancing Hall of MKC on April 1, 2027, on the "God Is a Vampire" tour: 40 shows in 19 countries between March 4 and April 18, marking 35 years of the band. With "Wolfheart" in 1995 and "Irreligious" in 1996 they became the best-known Portuguese metal band in the world, and the new album "Far From God" came out on July 3, 2026. Skopje is on the map of their biggest headline tour yet, and the date is far enough away for metal fans from across the region to plan the trip.

32 more new events in the calendar

The eight events in the video are part of 40 new ones that entered the events calendar on October 11. It also holds the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elvis Presley and Arctic Monkeys tribute nights at Stanica 26, Mile Kitić in Zagreb, the 58th BEMUS in Belgrade and Zoster on the Nova Zappa Barka, sorted by date and type, with a link to where tickets are sold.