The Association of choirs of Primorska together with the co-organizers of the magazine Primorska sings 27. February opens 57th. performing a choir festival. This year's Magazine brings record attendance and novelties, which makes it one of the most high-profile choral events in the Republic of Slovenia. The magazine will be hosted at 38 locations in 3 countries.
This year's Primorska sings will host 218 choirs, in which more than 4,000 singers from six countries will sing. More than 160 Slovenian choirs will participate. Such multiplicity of choirs shows the cultural diversity in a small geographical territory and the strong receptivity of the Primorska people towards Slovenian song and singing. The entire manifesto reflects a strong unifying and cross-border cultural character that is unique in Slovenia and across borders. In total, the choirs will recreate more than 650 songs, as each choir has prepared a program of three songs of their choice.
New venues
Primorska pje 2026 is expanding its cultural reach with new event locations. Among them are the castle of Stanjel and the Koper Theatre, and the Slavina Cultural Centre also opens its doors to the magazine. A special novelty will be the live broadcast of a special magazine from the Hendri Music Studio of Radio Koper, where three selected choirs will perform live.
Tribute to Slovenian songs
Together with the co-organizers of the magazine Primorska pje, the Association of choirs of Primorska joins the National Project of the Kosovel year. The magazine is symbolically linked by Kosovel's verse "our song is passionate, our power is alive!"and professes Kosovel's" credo " of man's inner creative power and love of life.
This year's magazine is also dedicated to Dragotin Kette at his 150. anniversary of birth. The peculiarity of the magazine is that as many as 22 choirs will include in their repertoire compositions on the lyrics of Srecko Kosovel and 18 choirs on the lyrics of Dragotin Kette. The Program will enhance the participation of young people. Students of the gymnasium Nova Gorica and the gymnasium Koper will interpret their poetry at six magazines and participate in the choral and instrumental accompaniment program. The magazine will thus become a vivid interpretation of the timeless creativity of Kosovel and Kette.
First own composition connects the singers of Primorska sings
The historical milestone of the magazine is the new composition "Primorska sings" (music: Miroslav Pashkvan, lyrics: Klara Makovec), which will connect singers from Primorska Krai and abroad. By singing a common song every year, the organizers want to create a new tradition that will strengthen the identity of the magazine.
Zveza pevskih zborov Primorske skupaj s soorganizatorji revije Primorska poje 27. februarja slavnostno odpira že 57. izvedbo zborovskega festivala. Letošnja revija prinaša rekordno udeležbo in novosti, kar jo uvršča med najbolj odmevne zborovske dogodke v Republiki Sloveniji. Revija bo gostovala na 38 lokacijah v 3 državah.
Letošnja Primorska poje bo gostila 218 pevskih zborov, v katerih bo zapelo več kot 4.000 pevcev iz šestih držav. Sodelovalo bo več kot 160 primorskih pevskih zborov samo iz Slovenije. Takšna množičnost pevskih zborov kaže na kulturno pestrost na majhnem geografskem ozemlju in močno dovzetnost primorskega naroda do slovenske pesmi in petja. Celoten manifest odraža močan povezovalni in čezmejni kulturni značaj, ki je edinstven v slovenskem in čezmejnem prostoru. Pevski zbori bodo skupno poustvarili več kot 650 skladb, saj je vsak zbor pripravil program treh skladb po lastni izbiri.
Nova prizorišča
Primorska poje 2026 širi svoj kulturni doseg z novimi prireditvenimi lokacijami. Med njimi sta Grad Štanjel in Gledališče Koper, reviji pa ponovno odpira vrata tudi Kulturni dom Slavina. Posebna novost bo neposreden prenos posebne revije iz Studia Hendrix Radia Koper, kjer bodo v živo nastopili trije izbrani pevski zbori.
Poklon slovenski pesmi
Zveza pevskih zborov Primorske se skupaj s soorganizatorji revije Primorska poje pridružuje nacionalnemu projektu Kosovelovega leta. Revijo simbolično povezuje Kosovelov verz »Naš spev je strasten, naša moč je živa!« in izpoveduje Kosovelov »credo« človekove notranje ustvarjalne moči in ljubezni do življenja.
Letošnja revija je vsebinsko posvečena tudi Dragotinu Ketteju ob njegovi 150. obletnici rojstva. Posebnost revije je, da bo kar 22 zborov v svoj repertoar uvrstilo skladbe na besedila Srečka Kosovela in 18 zborov na besedila Dragotina Ketteja. Program bo popestrilo sodelovanje mladih. Dijaki Gimnazije Nova Gorica in Gimnazije Koper bodo interpretirali njuno poezijo na šestih revijah in sodelovali v zborovskem in instrumentalnem spremljevalnem programu. Revija bo s tem postala živa interpretacija brezčasne ustvarjalnosti Kosovela in Ketteja.
Prva lastna skladba povezuje pevce Primorske poje
Zgodovinski mejnik revije je nova skladba »Primorska poje« (glasba: Miroslav Paškvan, besedilo: Klara Makovec), ki bo povezala pevce iz primorskih krajev ter zamejstva. Z vsakoletnim prepevanjem skupne pesmi organizatorji želijo ustvariti novo tradicijo, ki bo krepila identiteto revije.