SЕRB FEST A GREAT SUCCESS
St. Petersburg, FL - The St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church held its third annual Serb Fest on November 3-5, 2006.
This year’s Serb Fest was especially festive as our parish hosted the Ensamble of Serbian Folk Dancing Miroslav “Bata” Marcetic from Toronto, Canada. With over 400 people in attendence, these wonderful, talented and enthusiastic dancers opened Serb Fest with a performance in the Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, which also featured the Paprida dancers from the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in New Port Richey, FL, as well as our very own Serbian Pearl dance group from our St. Sava parish.
The members of the Ensamble of Serbian Folk Dancing Miroslav “Bata” Marcetic enthralled those present with their live music, led by music director Mica Petrovic, beautiful costumes, singing and dancing.
After the performance a large crowd gathered in the church hall for an evening of great food, beverages, dance and song.
Serb Fest continued on Saturday with a large variety of activities for children, who especially liked the walk the moon. There was a pie eating contest, won by Andjelko Krsmanovic & Selena Despotovic, and a pogacha bake-off, won by Kaja Djukic. We tried to set a record for the Guiness Book of World Records for the World’s Largest Kolo Dance, but we fell a little short of the number of dancers needed.
Once again Serbian dancers provided the main entertainment: Our Serbian Pearl dance group started the day of dancing with a wonderful performance of the small and middle groups. Later that afternoon, we were treated to a performance of the Serbian Crown dance group from the St. Petka Serbian Orthodox Church in Orlando, FL.
The evening performance was opened up by the senior group of Serbian Pearl. Once again the highlight of the evening was an encore performance of the Ensamble of Serbian Folk Dancing Miroslav “Bata” Marcetic before an overflowing crowd in the parish hall. The festivites continued into the night with song, dance and fellowship.
On Sunday, Pr. Stephen celebrated the Divine Liturgy with responses sung by our St. Sava Choir, after which Serb Fest concluded after another day of fun, food, music and an encore performance by the small and medium groups of Serbian Pearl.
We would like to thank all of our dancers, cooks, bakers, workers and donors who put in a lot of time and effort to make this year’s Serb Fest celebration a memorable one.