The event did attract some foreigners, but most seemed to be ethnic Albanian members of the Kosovar diaspora. One of them, Nora Thaci, 18, a college student, said her father had driven her “for, like, 24 hours” over 1,000 miles from Switzerland to see Dua Lipa.

But there were some non-Kosovars, too. On Friday morning, Sara Aleksieska, 18, a high-school student from neighboring Macedonia, got onto a packed minibus in the country’s capital, Skopje, with her sister and a friend to travel for two hours to the festival. It was her first time going to Kosovo, she said, and she didn’t know what to expect. Whenever her parents had talked about the country, it was always to do with politics and always very serious.

Before she left, she said, her father had told her repeatedly to be safe.

But on Saturday evening, lazing in the festival’s chillout area, Ms. Aleksieska said she would try to bring her parents next year. “I’m going to go back and tell them how great this place is,” she said. Everyone was friendly, the bands were great and the food was cheap, she added.

She had not understood any of the Albanian spoken from the stage, she said — she knew no Albanian words; her sister only the numbers up to 10 and the word for ice cream — but that hadn’t mattered.

“When everyone yelled, we yelled. It’s been so much fun.”