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Experience THE SOUNDS AND COLORS OF TURKEY 6/27 In Central Park
Broadway World, NY The premier event spotlighting Eastern European and Balkan music, the festival has brought to the American masses such now-popular artists as Balkan Beat Box, Ivo Poposov, Gogol Bordello and Kolpakov Trio. |
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The Songs of a Wandering People
Forward, NY The song is performed in Judeo-Spanish (which spread to the urban centers of the former Ottoman Empire, northern Morocco and Vienna, after the expulsion) and is set in the Balkan hammams (or baths), in which women gathered to wash their clothes and … |
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Musikkfest Oslo 09
Oslopuls.no, Norway 12.56: Du Store Verden, SAMSPILL International Music Network, Le Rustique, Suchet Singh Dhindsa/MC, Now we've got Members(nü-balkan, araberfunk), Radical Devotion (music for healing), Safia Y. Abdi (afro-blues), Ziggy Boomfall (Ragga og Dancehall), … |
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Croat chef cooks up winning dish
Croatian Times, Croatia Croat chef Tomislav Hruban beat all his rivals to take "The Golden Balkan Cook" award in Belgrade last week. Cooks from Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Romania, took part in the competition, said Varazdin.info website. … |
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Ireland's Woody Guthrie takes to Passionfruit stage
Westmeath Independent, Ireland Andy then recorded his second solo album, “Rude Awakening”, and created the hugely influential “East Wind”, an album of Balkan music, produced by Bill Whelan and featuring Davy Spillane on Uilleann Pipes. Patrick Street regrouped in 1993 with Kevin, … |
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Romania, Serbia hold consultations on security issues
Financiarul, Romania Romania will continue enhancing NATO's profile related to the Western Balkan region with a view to promoting its security interests. Romania will encourage Serbia to make the utmost use of its cooperation instruments and its individual training … |
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Keeping Canadians on their toes
Jerusalem Post, Israel The festivities have included performances by Idan Raichel, Ehud Banai and Balkan Beat Box, along with Barak Marshall's Monger and Company Nacional De Danza from Spain. It cannot be taken for granted that a company as old as this one still manages to … |
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Ghana and more
Malta Independent Online, Malta The Israeli Ethnic Ensemble will take the festival to its grand finale with their captivating fusion of Balkan, Gypsy, Sephardic, Yemenite and Mediterranean influences. Most people associate Maltese folk music exclusively to ghana. … |
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Boxing: City pair in Balkan battles
Edinburgh Evening News, UK Taylor had signalled his intentions with a 15-5 quarter-final win over world No.5 rated David Kanalas of Hungary then, in the semis, he beat Czech Republic boxer Miroslav Serban 17-6. However, Gilmerton's British lightweight champion Connor McCallum … |
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Carleton's Orchestra Performs Spring Concert
Carleton College News, MN His research interests include the music of Eugene Ysaye, Luisa Adolpha Le Beau and Amy Beach. Valdivia recently recorded Beach's "Variations on Balkan Themes" with the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, Czech Republic. As a violinist, he performs with … Carleton's Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos to Perform in Concert |
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