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

PRISTINA: Amidst a sea of ​​denim shorts, selfies, sequins and pulsing bass lines, you could mistake the place for Coachella or Glastonbury. But the Sunny Hill festival in Pristina is helping to turn Kosovo into a destination during the summer festival season in Europe, thanks in large part to its founder: Dua Lipa. For years, Kosovo has been embroiled in a bloody war with Serbia that pitted ethnic Albanian rebels against Serbian forces in the late 1990s, killing thousands and created a refugee crisis.

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