{"id":1844,"date":"2025-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:28:37","slug":"concert-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/2025\/03\/02\/concert-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikend pjesme i plesa: Godi\u0161nji koncert 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 28, and Saturday, March 1, 2025, Hrvatska \u0161kola Kardinal Stepinac and Klub Stepinac welcomed friends from Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee for our 2025 Annual Concert weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration began on Friday evening with the Klub Stepinac Welcome Dance Party in the St. Jerome Croatian Hall, with music by DJ Dark&#8217;o.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, March 1, our community gathered at Benito Juarez Community Academy for the Annual Concert. The dancers and tambura\u0161i of Klub Stepinac took the stage together with our 7th and 8th graders, and we were honored to welcome three guest groups: the Croatian Jr. Tamburitzans of St. Louis, the Milwaukee Croatian Tamburitzans and Hrvatska Loza Chicago (Croatian Vines Chicago). To the sound of the tamburica, they filled the stage with colorful folklore and with traditional Croatian dances and customs from many regions of our homeland. After the concert, the celebration continued with a banquet at St. Jerome.<\/p>\n<p>Our invitation before the weekend said it best: come play and sing together with us in our St. Jerome hall!<\/p>\n<p>Weekends like this are what our Annual Concert is all about: sharing our songs and dances and building friendships among Croatian communities across the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>A heartfelt thank you to our guests, to the school board members who took care of tickets, and to all our organizers, teachers and parents for their perseverance in preserving our culture and our togetherness. Hvala od srca!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1844 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\r\n            <div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n                <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02.jpg' data-fancybox='group3' data-caption=''><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"(English) A tamburica orchestra in Croatian folk costumes and vests plays behind music stands on a theater stage, led by a conductor, with the audience in the foreground.\" data-srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02.jpg 1600w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"(English) A tamburica orchestra in Croatian folk costumes and vests plays behind music stands on a theater stage, led by a conductor, with the audience in the foreground.\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-02.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\r\n            <\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\r\n            <div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\r\n                <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03.jpg' data-fancybox='group3' data-caption=''><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"(English) Couples in red-and-white folk costumes, the men in black vests and hats with red ribbons, dance arm in arm across the stage.\" data-srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"(English) Couples in red-and-white folk costumes, the men in black vests and hats with red ribbons, dance arm in arm across the stage.\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/concert-2025-news-03.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\r\n            <\/div><\/figure>\r\n        <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klub Stepinac, na\u0161i u\u010denici 7. i 8. razreda i gosti iz St. Louisa, Milwaukeeja i Chicaga ispunili su vikend Godi\u0161njeg koncerta 2025. tamburicom, pjesmom i plesom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kardinalstepinacchicago.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}