’God save Dua Lipa’: festival puts Kosovo on music map

PRISTINA: Amid a sea of ​​denim shorts, selfies, sequins and pounding bass lines, the setting could easily be mistaken for Coachella or Glastonbury. But Sunny Hill Festival in Pristina is helping to turn Kosovo into a destination during Europe's summer festival season, thanks in large part to its founder: Dua Lipa. For years, Kosovo was associated with its bloody war with Serbia that pitted ethnic Albanian rebels against Serbian forces in the late 1990s, leaving thousands dead and triggering a refugee crisis.

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