International Gipsy Festival Tilburg
The 14th edition of the International Gipsy Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands will feature lots of balkan brass this year: Ekrem & Gypsy Groovz, La Caravanne Passe, Haidouti Orkestar and Mahala Rai Banda. If you're in the neighbourhood on may 30th this festival is not to be missed!. More info at Gipsyfestival.nl.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The Golden Festival celebrates 25th anniversary
Every January, NY Balkan music scene pioneers the Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band organize the Golden Festival - a massive two-night grassroots Balkan and East European music and dance festival at the Good Shepherd School, 620 Isham Street in the Inwood section of Upper Manhattan.
The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan & Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 40 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.
The Golden Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this Friday and Saturday, and tickets are available here.
For those who won't be able to attend but want to live vicariously, Rob Weisberg's Transpacific Sound Paradise program will broadcast live on WFMU this Saturday from 6pm until midnite (NY time).
The TSP broadcast will take place from one of the festival's three stages, the "Kafana" stage (Kafana is Serbo-Croatian for "cafe"; and the broadcast hq will once again be conveniently located right next to the beer line!).
The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan & Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 40 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.
The Golden Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this Friday and Saturday, and tickets are available here.
For those who won't be able to attend but want to live vicariously, Rob Weisberg's Transpacific Sound Paradise program will broadcast live on WFMU this Saturday from 6pm until midnite (NY time).
The TSP broadcast will take place from one of the festival's three stages, the "Kafana" stage (Kafana is Serbo-Croatian for "cafe"; and the broadcast hq will once again be conveniently located right next to the beer line!).
