Archive for August, 2010

Today in Toronto: Ashkenaz Festival
Toronto Life
The New York trio Balkan Beat Box—whose members are alums of Gogol Bordello and Firewater—piles a dizzying range of genres onto their folk roots,

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Radio Beyond the Borders
Santa Barbara Independent
“I'm still trying to learn traditional Balkan music,” he said when describing his latest listening ventures. “It's complex. It's a stretch, I admit,

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Lee University's Presidential Concert Series To Begin In October
The Chattanoogan
Fry Street Quartet began its international career in 2002 as cultural ambassadors to the Balkan States, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the US Department of

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Pan-Balkan Art Picnic kicks off today
Caboodle.hu
During the week-long Pan-Balkan Art Picnic several programmes combining street and visual art, folk, jazz and world music and theatre for children will be

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Globe and Mail
Balkan Beat Box: the Lady Gaga of folk revivalism
Globe and Mail
30, 2010 3:45PM EDT If any band could convert Lady Gaga fans to the sharp swagger of Balkan brass band music, it'd be Balkan Beat Box.

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Ynetnews
The prince of Jerusalemites' nights
Ynetnews
I started listening to everything, as much music as I could, as varied as possible: Funk, hip-hop, jazz, Balkan music, etc”. Then, every time he was playing

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Rupa & the April Fishes come to Kennedy Center
Washington Examiner
bins of record stores from Austria to Mexico [with] music [that] exists in the hinterland between indie rock, folk, cumbia, gypsy and Balkan brass.

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Mashable (blog)
Our Favorite YouTube Videos this Week: The Science Edition
Mashable (blog)
I enjoy Balkan music videos… Amy-Mae Elliott: (some NSFW language) In this short clip American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson quite correctly

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The Economist (blog)
Budapest's Jewish festival L'chaim, in Budapest
The Economist (blog)
The thumping Balkan beat soon had even dowager grandmas clapping along. The Boban Markovic Orchestra is the latest in a long line of renowned musicians to

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KAPINSKI PRIVATE EYE ACADEMY Opens at the Brick, 9/17-24
Broadway World
She has toured and taught internationally, hosting workshops in traditional folk music. As curator, Alden co-organizes The Balkan Shout Out,

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