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Besides Djordje’s website there’s probably not that many other places where blues, jazz, rock and pop legends could be found together with Classical, Middle Eastern, Balkan, Gypsy and Cajun musicians. This photo album has them all!

Tommy and Djordje played together on several occasions. This photo is from Dom Sindikata in Belgrade, Serbia
Photo by El Gvojos

Djordje and Donovan played together at the legendary Hollywood rock’n’roll palace – the Cedars, once inhabited by Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Arthur Lee, Errol Flynn, Bela Lugosi, Johnny Depp and now owned by their mutual friend and amazing designer Sue Wong.
Photo by Nigel Daly

Swingin with the Zippers at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles CA
Photo by Donicé Kaufman

Lap Steel Day with some real legends Bobby Black (Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Dolly Parton, Commander Cody, Asleep at the Wheel) and Freddie Roulette (John Lee Hooker).
Photo by Ted Silverman

Djordje’s MiddleEastern Sephardic band Shira Utfila. This incarnation of the band included Israeli master of qanun Elad Gabbay and of course Stefan Sablic, leader of the band.
Photo by Aleksandar Djalek Djordjevic

Rupa Marya likes to bring her music to the places you would not normaly expect it – from hospitals to public transportation. This shot was taken for San Francisco Chronicle. Djordje toured with Rupa and the April Fishes in 2008 and played on 4 tracks of her critically acclaimed album Este Mundo. She’s also a full time doctor!
Photo by Katy Raddatz

Djordje performing with a real Chicago blues legend Billy Boy Arnold (Bo Diddley) at the Ponderosa Stomp Festival in Memphis TN

Djordje’s first world music band Balkan Music Club featured some of the best young talents on the Serbian music scene: Katarina Jovanovic, Milica Jevic, Tea Dimitrijevic, Filip Krumes and Vladimir Marinkovic. This band is considered by many as one of the starters of the revival of traditional Balkan music in Serbia.

Opa Cupa is the craziest and one of the most original bands on the Balkan Gypsy music scene in Italy. They hail from Salento, deep south of the country. This pic is from their first USA tour.
Photo by Anthony Toth-Fejel

CalShakes rendition of “As You Like It!” at the theater under open sky in the middle of a forest in East Bay CA. Djordje was acting a bassist in a Gypsy band, with Lila Sklar on violin and Dan Cantrell on accordion. The trio played original music by Gina Leishman. California Shakespeare Theater cast included Stephen Barker Turner (Law & Order, Sex and the City), Susannah Schulman, L. Peter Callender (Nightmare before Christmas, Nash Bridges) and others.
Photo by Jay Yamada

Check out the talents slapping on this stage – Chris Sugarballs Sprague, Jimmy Sutton, Djordje Stijepovic, Wally Hersom, Billy Horton and Deke Dickerson
Photo by Lola Bel Aire

Marsya possibly had the most original sound on the world music scene in Serbia. This shot is with the lineup that recorded debut album "Visoko drvo" (A High Tree) – Zorz Grujic, Anja Djordjevic, Slobodan Pavlovic, Dusan Djukic Djuka and Djordje.
Photo by Nebojsa Babic

This shot was on the cover of the Baton Rouge daily paper. Dan Cantrell and Djordje at the Festival International in LaFayette in Louisiana.

Matt Sorum (Guns’n’Roses, Cult), Donovan Leitch (Camp Freddy) and Djordje at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Los Angeles CA
Photo by Emily Stoia

Playing blues with Chicago blues legend Jody Williams (Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush). He’s also the guy that played that amazing solo on Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?”!

Some of the best exponents of Gypsy music today – Ismail Lumanovski on clarinet, Rumen Sali Shopov on drums, Chris Bajmakovich on accordion and Djordje on bass.
Photo by Raymond Van Tassel

Karavan Serai takes inspiration and plays music from Hindustani classical and Iranian traditions, through the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, the Mediterranean and the Balkans. Djordje was a guest bassist for the first show of the band with Stefan Sablic on vocals and oud, Dejan Zaric on riq and zarb, Akash Bhatt on tabla and Nenad Vjestica Khan on sitar and oud.
Photo by Anamarija Vartabedijan

Cajun rhythm far from the swamps with Gerard Landry and his Lariats. Marty Jara on violin, Andrew Cariere on vocals, Mitch Polzak on guitar and Gerard Landry on accordion. This shot was taken at the legendary Ashkenaz in Berkeley CA.
Photo by Elaine Miller Bond

This pop singer sold millions of records worldwide. Aaron and Djordje played one of his biggest hits I Want Candy, cover of Strangeloves, rockabilly style!
Photo by Samantha Madnick

One of the most popular Mexican acts Molotov, invited Djordje to be their special guest (with Ana Tijoux and Money Mark from Beastie Boys) at MTV Unplugged. This performance was released as a live album “El Disconecte” that was #1 selling album on Itunes that week and #6 Twitter trending event in the world!

Marco Beltrami is one of the most sought-after composers in Hollywood. He scored music for Wes Craven (Scream, Resident Evil), Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) and many other (Blade II, Wolverine, Logan) blockbusters. For this performance at LA LIVE he chose a special band consisting of Sandy Cameron (of Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton concerts) on violin, Dusty Brough on guitar, Josh Kaufman on accordion, Cory Beers on cymbalom and Djordje Stijepovic on double bass. They performed his music for Snowpiercer that was nominated for Grand Bell Award for best music.

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