Festival Founded By Dua Lipa's Father Decamps From Kosovo

Miley Cyrus performs at Sunny Hill Festival in Pristina, Kosovo Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. While Albania’s capital Tirana is bristling with preparations for holding an international music festival, its neighboring Kosovo’s counterpart Pristina is swarmed into political confrontations after losing it. The Sunny Hill Festival will be held this year Aug. 4-7 in Tirana instead of Pristina following a political controversy between Kosovo’s leftwing Self Determination Movement!-led government and opposition Democratic League of Kosovo running the capital. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)

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By Associated Press

June 15, 2022 at 6:06 PM UTC

Tirana, Albania (AP) -- An international music festival founded by the father of singer-songwriter Dua Lipa to promote his native Kosovo has led to recriminations for the small European country after it lost the event to neighboring Albania.

The Sunny Hill Festival made its debut in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in 2018 and took place again in 2019, bringing artists like Miley Cyrus, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix and Action Bronson to one of Europe's youngest and poorest nations. British-born Dua Lipa also was a featured headliner.