It is a festival open to young performers, regardless to the type of music they perform. The contest is open to young musicians from 13-19 years old (individuals) and groups (bands) up to 10 musicians who on average are older than 19 years.

Imagine festival competitions are live performances of all styles of music open to all young musicians.

Imagine Festival is the common name for the competition of young soloists and groups - the type of the festival originated as the frame of Jeunesses Musicales / Musical Youth. Festivals of this type are organized for years in Sweden (Music Director), Belgium (Live Music), South Africa (Music Crossroads Southern Africa), and Slovenia (Najstfest) and since 2007 in Croatia.

A fifth CROATIAN Imagine Festival

On Sunday, 13th November 2011 in club SAX was held fifth edition of the Croatian Imagine Festival, which from this year is called IMAGINE CROATIA. . Performed total of 14 musicians, of which eleven of them were finalists of IMAGINE competition, and three bands were the guests of the festival, so that on SAX-stage during a three-hour program, changed nearly 60 young musicians.

The festival opened last year's winners, group EpEpe from Koprivnica, and then perform in sequence finalists:

• 1st. RAND group (Split)
• 2nd ANOTHER WORLD, the group (Pozega)
• 3rd.  Musical, a trio (Zagreb)
• 4th FLAGEOLET, group (Virovitica)
• 5th SONJA AGATA BIŠĆAN, soloist (Zagreb)
• 6th Goatfish, duo (Zagreb)
• 7th HORIZONT, the group (Zagreb)
• 8th X - FIRE, trio (Slavonski Samac)
• 9th RESTART UNPLUGGED,  group (Čakovec)
• 10th MILF, trio (Zagreb)
• 11th BIG STRIP Gora Group (New York)

After performing of  the last finalist, Evaluation Competition Tribunal decided on the winners, and this time take  guests, the Belgian group GREEN MOON and SIR FRANCIS and guests from Romania, a group Phenomenon.

After that followed announcement of the best that were awarded with prize.

The winner of the festival IMAGINE CROATIA 2011th was group RESTART unplugged, from Cakovec and they deserved appearance at the International Imagine Festival in Romania, in Sibiu, European Capital of Culture 2012th year. Also, the general sponsor of the festival IMAGINE CROATIA,  company EURO - UNIT from Cakovec, awarded them  with prize, guitar combo amplifier ORANGE, prize they received from marketing manager for Euro-Unit Tihomir Baranašić. In addition, Restart won an award CMC (Croatian Music Channel), broadcast video on the most prestigious Croatian music TV channel.