BALKAN FEVER LONDON returns in 2010 as a one-day Festival with 6 hours of music in a big venue - OCEAN HACKNEY - with huge dance floor, big stage, sound system and long bar.

4 acts will travel to the UK specially for the show making it a unique event! Top Music from Hungary, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and more... Traditional, Funky Fusions, Gypsy Madness, SchliwoBeatz, Soulful Sevdah. Something for everyone. Time to catch the Fever!

doors 6.30pm-1am
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Tickets £12-£16 advance (+booking fee)
www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000
www.wegottickets.com

Flexible pricing -
Limited discounted advance tickets may be available!

Ocean is served by many buses
(from Bethnal Green, Highbury, Old Street, etc)
and new Dalston Junction overground + bus)
Train to London Fields from Liverpool Street


 

The Baghdaddies... are BACK!

What a legendary band.... We last put on a show for the Baghdaddies back in 2007 - what a show! And now they are back with a new, fabulous album -

***** DANCYLVANIA!!!! *****

Join us for the launch party. Brassy, Bold... THE BAGHDADDIES! A unique mix of amazing musicianship, Balkan and Latin brass, ska rhythms, exuberant musical joy mixed with in-yer-face Geordie attitude. Going since 1996, The Baghdaddies are one of the best!

Also in an amazing double bill, a genuine SOUTHERN ITALIAN PIZZICA AND TARANTELLA MUSIC by members of Turin-based PARANZA DEL GECO. If you don't know this style of music, you have to experience these rhythms! We're so excited that these guys are coming over for this show.

THE BAGHDADDIES -
http://www.baghdaddies.com
PARANZA DEL GECO -  Learn the dance moves in advance here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYIJYE1cXQ

Music starts sharp at 8.00pm!!!
The Tabernacle's swish bar & restaurant are open all day.

Tickets.... £8-£10.90 (plus booking fee)
Limited Early Bird tickets available at £8 (plus booking fee)
Ticketweb
tel bookings 08444 771 000 (Ticketweb)
 

ANTIDOTE TO ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL!

Arriving in London for the first time, Boom Pam bring their partied-up blend of guitar-led Mediterranean surf and tuba-led Balkan Wedding sounds. Having played major festivals around the world as well as front room gigs and the underground scene, and with two albums on Essay Recordings, home to Shantel & The Bucovina Club Orchestra, this Tel Aviv trio know how to get the party going. Check Out Wedding Song

Plus London's own Gypsy Hill - a new bass-tastic electro Balkan live project led by Kobayashi and Herbert Newbert. Check Out Gypsy Hill (Besh O Drom Remix)

 TICKETS (some early bird discounts available) 
www.ticketweb.co.uk

 AN UNIQUE EVENT  NOT TO MISS. DOORS 7.30PM CURFEW AT 11PM SHARP.

With influences as varied as Romanian gypsy stars Taraf de Haidouks, Frank Zappa and Led Zeppelin, accordionist Koby Israelite’s high-energy music defies categorisation.  His five releases have been praised as genre-busting,
and tracks have been used in Madonna’s film Filth & Wisdom and covered
by gypsy brass legends Fanfare Ciocarlia.

 Gipsydelica provides funky Bulgarian gypsy grooves
with the irrepressible Morski on guitar. Always a delight.

+ Balkan Swing Master DJ Sacha Dieu

Tickets £10 plus booking fee in advance - 08444 771 000

Student concessions with valid card on the door.

The Tabernacle has a great restaurant / bar if you want to eat before the show.
Reservation advised 020 7221 9700
 

“The most amazing guy I know on the guitar…He can play anything I know, only better.”  Chet Atkins

“If you like my playing, you should hear Richard Smith!”  Tommy Emmanuel

Richard and Tommy Emmanuel on Youtube. Great!
 

Londoner Richard Smith was a child prodigy who, aged 11, played on stage with Chet Atkins, the late great godfather of fingerstyle guitar. He moved to the USA  to the guitar hothouse of Nashville, and became USA National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion in 2001.  Richard Smith is nothing less than a phenomenon, and his live shows are mind-blowing. You’ll wonder how one man and a guitar can sound as he does – sometimes he’s a whole marching band all on his own! He's toured the world, surprising audiences everywhere with his genius, showcasing a repertoire spanning an incredible range of musical styles from country, bluegrass, mainstream jazz, pop, to classical guitar, with fun, feeling and finesse.  He's joined for this concert by his wife Julie Adams on cello.

Their repertoire includes a wide variety of instrumental and vocal music from Scott Joplin Rags, Sousa marches, Mozart, fiddle tunes, standards, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed tunes, Django Reinhardt gypsy jazz, Bach, Beatles and pop tunes, lightning fast barn-burners to beautiful ballads. This promises to be an outstanding evening of virtuoso musicianship. The combination of Julie's lyrical style and Richard's dazzling technique will melt your heartstrings, have your toes tapping and your jaws hanging open.

Live music venue * Café Bar * Vegetarian menu * Just 3 minutes walk from Camden Town tube.

www.greennote.co.uk 020 7485 9899  Richard Smith's concerts at the Green Note are always popular - booking in advance recommended.

Tickets on sale here

Doğan Mehmet  "A truly electric performer" Larmer Tree Festival

Young violinist Doğan Mehmet, along with his backing band the Deerhunters, creates an Anglo-Turkish, Gypsy-Punk style mix of traditions and strong acoustic grooves. A diverse mixture of Southern English and Turkish folk songs, self-penned material and tunes from English Morris as well as Cypriot traditions give Doğan his own captivating sound - a storm wherever he goes with his effervescent personality and huge enthusiasm for life and for his music.

Plus upbeat Greek, Turkish, Balkan and Kurdish classics by acclaimed singer Cigdem Aslan and members of group Aiode featuring Peyman Heydarian on santur and Pavlos Melas on guitar and vocals.

This event is a collboration with Folklahoma

Tickets www.wegottickets.com just £8 plus booking fee.

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 Doğan Mehmet, Gypsyhead CD – OUT NOW!

"A thrilling shape shifting debut" Metro  

 And for something completely different... check out...
Dogan Mehmet in Omid Djalil's Comedy Kebab Song!

New Album, New Show. UK Exclusive! Tickets on sale now.

They've been wowing festival and club audiences around the world non-stop for the last couple of years with their wild, powerful show, and now they are back with their strongest album so far.

BALKAN BEAT BOX – the three-headed, dancefloor-conquering powerhouse principally comprising Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan and Tomer Yosef – have been busy since the release of 2007’s devastating debut for Crammed Nu-Med (not forgetting last year’s fine remix collection Nu-Made) honing a sound that mixes musical gene pools more effectively than ever: they have arrived at Blue Eyed Black Boy - as loud, proud and politically-engaged a statement as you could hope for from this most 21st century of bands.

Release Dates
Single War Again - 22 March 2010
Album - 29 March 2010
Click image for preview trailer
www.crammed.be

Recorded across a suitably diverse range of European locations – Ori’s adopted city of Vienna, Austria, the Serbian capital of Belgrade and the band’s mutual hometown Tel-Aviv in Israel were all bases covered on this album’s journey – Blue Eyed Black Boy finds BBB going that bit deeper, finding striking melodies, rock-solid song structure and an ever-sharper political awareness alongside their typically artful sonic collision of global musical styles and thundering danceloor beats.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

08444 771 000

In association with Coda.

HOT HOT HOT! Club Zigana, London’s leading Gypsy music bash, celebrates legendary Manouche guitarist Django Reinhardt’s 100^th anniversary (23^rd January 1910) at one of west London’s Premiere Venues with TWO AMAZING BANDS...

...hot contemporary Gypsy swing from 8-piece THE BRIGHT SIZE GYPSIES and scorching Balkan sax mayhem with the talented and popular ALEJANDRO TOLEDO & THE MAGIC TOMBOLINOS.

...The Flying Chillies DJs spin Django Swing and Gypsy floor fillers, and there will be a special film screening of rare Django Reinhardt film footage at 8.30pm just before the show.

COME AND JOIN US IN WHAT IS TRULY THE PARTY OF A CENTURY!  

Tickets: Just £10 (+booking fee) adv / more on door / student discounts on door

www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444 771 000

Venue number: 0207 221 9700

 The Tabernacle Bar and Restaurant are open before the show - great food.

www.tabernaclelive.co.uk

Tickets  £15.50 - £30
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In Yasmin Levy’s music there is a tension between the purity of Ladino (the Judeo-Spanish music of Spain) and the fiery heart of flamenco. As she explains ’There’s a very traditional way of singing Ladino. I learnt it…listening to women singing and it’s beautiful, but I missed the passion. Flamenco is nothing but passion.’ In her new album Sentir (World Village), produced by the acclaimed Javier Limón (who has worked previously with the likes of Portuguese fado star Mariza), she has found a vision that integrates these musical directions. With Sentir, Yasmin’s music truly becomes ’of the world’.

The concert begins with Turkish singer Çigdem Aslan (pronounced Cheedem), who performs poignant rebetiko songs in Greek and Turkish from 1920s Smyrna, Istanbul, Athens and Piraeus.
 

Tickets 

Two great bands in a potent mix of jazz, world music, rock and other influences! 

Just £5 entrance if you are on the GUESTLIST! Otherwise £8.
For GUESTLIST email your name to info@kazum.co.uk

TOLIS ZAVALIARIS PROJECT

A teacher at the London Institute of Contemporary Music, Greek born Toils Zavaliaris has been performing throughout U.K and Greece for more than ten years. Experienced session guitarist/song writer/producer, he has worked with some of the top producers in London such as Peter Greenwall (Flop-Star), Benny D (Depeche Mode), John Robertson (Morcheeba), David Crefield (Kaiser Chiefs)as well as touring with world famous violinist Vanessa Mae. His unique style blends sounds from rock and modern jazz/fusion with Greek and Eastern European music. 

KOBY ISRAELITE BAND

Multi-instrumentalist  Koby Israelite leads his band on accordion with special guest tuba virtuoso extraordinaire Oren Marshall in a heady blend of influences from Gypsy, Jewish, and Eastern European to Rock and Jazz. With 4 CD releases on John Zorn's celebrated Tzadik label, Koby is attracting an eager following of fans around the world.

"Has to be seen to be believed" 

"Music of great imagination, filled with humour, virtuosic technique and fabulous detail" 

Inn on the Green is a cosy intimate venue with a great vibe. Very near Ladbroke Grove underground.

Directions -
Exit Ladbroke Grove underground.
Cross the road and follow the footpath under the Westway road flyover on the left side.
Inn On The Green is just along there up some steps under the flyeover.

Doors open 7pm
Live music from 8.30pm

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