In a summer crowded with venerable, corporate‑backed spectacles, the most exciting and consequential music festival in Europe is unfolding on a newly verdant hillside just outside Pristina from August 1 to 3. Sunny Hill Festival functions as more than a concert; it has become a social movement that carries the aspirations of an entire country. Its sixth edition is anchored by a homecoming that feels like a coronation: Dua Lipa, Kosovo’s most celebrated daughter, returns at the peak of her Radical Optimism Tour, the top‑grossing tour of the year, with over $110 million already earned and barreling toward the quarter‑billion mark. Absent from Glastonbury, Primavera and Roskilde, she makes Pristina her only European festival appearance, a booking that propels the three‑day event to the very forefront of the continent’s calendar. Her headlining set sits alongside performances by Shawn Mendes, Peggy Gou, Fatboy Slim, Anyma and Mochakk, yet the real headliner remains the festival’s original, audacious purpose: to lift a nation’s spirit.
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