The main European song contest is yet to happen in May, however, the artists, bookers and festival entertainment executives have already announced the lineup for Arsenal Fest 2026 which features the big Serbian Eurovision name like Konstrakta, Oxajo and this year’s champions, Lavina. Let’s take a deep dive in the lineup annuncements at Arsenal fest 2026.
Festival announcement for Lavina
Lavina returns to Arsenal fest to perform on the Main stage:
About Lavina
Lavina is a six-piece band formed of Luka Aranđelović, Pavle Aranđelović, Pavle Samardžić, Andrija Cvetanović, Nikola Petrović and Bojan Ilić. The group first formed in 2020 in their native Niš. The band released their first album in 2022 and released a string of songs from 2024 onwards, all in English. Their music has led to various festival appearances (Arsenal fest, Sziget, Eurosonic and upcoming Hills of Rock) and domestic success in Serbia itself. The band has already won thousands of fan’s hearts form The Netherlands, The UK, Ukraine and Poland and we are thrilled to follow their Eurovision journey and post-contest career.
Festival announcement for Konstrakta
About Konstrakta
Konstrakta is the stage name of Ana Đurić, a Serbian singer and songwriter. After establishing herself in the Serbian music scene as the vocalist of the group Zemlja gruva!. She started pursuing a solo career in 2019. Konstrakta won the inaugural Pesma Za Evrovizija national final with “In Corpore Sano”. She finished 5th on 312 points total, with 87 of those points coming from the juries and 225 from the televote. Since then, Konstrakta also competed in the 2024 edition of Serbia’s Pesma, finishing 4th with the song “Novo, bolje”. She has become a true Eurovision icon and is welcomed and expected at meny musical events every year.
Festival announcement for Oxajo
About Oxajo
Another additon to the Garden stage are Oxajo is an alternative rock band from Belgrade. The band consists of Dušan Strajnić ( Stray Dogg), Marko Ajković , and Dario Vuksanović. They released their firs single “Put” (The way) in 2023 and got to take 2nd place at Milan Mladenović Award, the highly respected prize for young musicians in Serbia. The next ones, Sijam (Shining) and “Moje vreme” (My time) were awarded Hit of the Year by Radio Beograd 202 and Song of the Year award in the music TV show Bunt (Protest).
Another breakthrough they made was through their participation at PZE 2025 with “Mama” which brought them to the finals and made Eurovision audience enjoy the performance and the rest of their discography.
Arsenal fest 2026
The most expected summer music festival in Kragujevac takes place every year at the end of June at Knežev Arsenal on three stages: Main Stage, Garden Stage and Explosive Stage.
Arsenal Fest is a member of the European association of festivals “Yourope” and in 2019 was shortlisted for the best European small festival. As the festival organisation shares, due to its great importance for the cultural life of Kragujevac, the festival was declared an event of public importance in 2020.
Lineup 2026
This year’s lineup features The Cardigans (Sweden), Sonata Arctica (Finland), Napalm Death and Cockney Rejects (England), Partibrejkers and Goran Bare & Majke (Serbia and Former Yugoslavia), Jakov Jozinovic, Matija Cvek and Detour (Croatia), Concrete Sun and Repetitor (Serbia),Aril Brikha (Sweden),Underworld and Paradise Lost (The UK), Magnifico (Slovenia), Elena Vasova (North Macedonia), DJ Peppe (Serbia) and many more in store for the audience from all around the world. We hope you have already reserved your tickets and ready to see your favorite artists and fall in love with the established Serbian musicians, the city of Kragujevac and local culture.
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