For the third year in a row, we have Croatian Heritage Night with the Detroit Pistons! Come out to proudly present and celebrate our Croatian heritage with the Detroit Pistons, on Saturday, March 1st, 2025! The Pistons will be taking on the Brooklyn Nets at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. There will be a special […]

On November 30th we had the opportunity of performing at the Christmas concert hosted by the Canadian Croatian Choral Society in Toronto, at St. Paul’s United church. Coming to Toronto was worth the four-hour drive, as our hosts were very kind and welcoming, setting the tone for the entire performance. In the beautifully decorated church, […]

Last Sunday we had a fantastic, private event at the Ristorante Avanti in Windsor. The members of all our three klapas with their families gathered and we conducted the filming of interviews that will be part of the long documentary about our klapas, which we have been working on for the last couple of years. […]

Klapa Kartolina, together with its ensembles Fritule and Berekin, performed at the jubilee 50th Canadian-Croatian Folklore Festival East on May 18th, in the city of Mississauga, Ontario. We performed traditional Dalmatian klapa songs, as the only group in the Canadian Croatian Folklore Federation East dedicated to cherishing and preserving the important part of Croatian cultural […]

On May 30th, 2024, we were honored to participate in the Croatian Statehood Day celebration and in the inaugural Croatian Heritage Day in Ontario. This day is now officially recognized as an observance day in the Province of Ontario, and we are truly proud of that. This is an achievement of enormous significance for Croatians […]

On May 7th we celebrate the day of St. Domnius (Sudamja), the patron saint of the city of Split. Saint Domnius (also known as Saint Dujam or Saint Duje, Saint Domnio, Saint Doimus, or Saint Domninus) was a Bishop of Salona (today’s Solin) around the year 300, and is venerated as the patron saint of […]

The song Hallelujah by Klapa Kartolina is an a cappella cover of Leonard Cohen’s famous song, where the arrangement and the third verse in the Croatian language are the work of Višnja Tijardović, director of Klapa Kartolina. This video is an homage to the life and work of Leonard Cohen and in it you can […]

We celebrated our 10-year anniversary with a multimedia event at the Capitol Theatre in Windsor, on April 12, 2024. The event included the premiere of a short documentary film about Klapa Kartolina and a singing performance by our three ensembles: Kartolina, Fritule and Berekin. As part of the program, a video of the church choir […]

Our event at the Capitol Theatre on April 12, 2024, will have a premiere screening of the song Poljička. The song describes the history and beauty of Poljica, a historic and independent principality that existed in the area between Split and Omiš from the 13th to the 19th century, where our klapa story from the […]

See this photo gallery for a sneak peek of our documentary that will be premiered on April 12, 2024 in Windsor’s Capitol Theatre. For the first time on the North American continent, the public will have the chance to see and hear Klapa Kartolina on a big screen, with scenes filmed in Croatia and Canada. […]