Eastern European and New Orleans Dance Music, NYC, May 6
PIEROGIES AND PO-BOYS:
A NIGHT OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AND NEW ORLEANS DANCE MUSIC AT
THE BAGGOT INN, NEW YORK
May 6
7 pm - The Village Klezmer Quintet; 8 pm The Gold
Sparkle Brass Band; 9 pm Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance
Party Band.
Baggot Inn, 82 W. 3rd Street, bet. Thompson and Sullivan
tel: (212) 477-0622
www.baggotinn.com/baggot.html
MAY 6th, 2004 (New York, NY) Romashka, The Village
Klezmer Quintet, and the Gold Sparkle Brass Band are
joining forces at the Baggot Inn on Thursday, May 6th. The
show will feature the lively music of Romanian & Russian
Gypsy caravans, the Eastern European Jewish diaspora, and
New Orleans second line, which grew out of the funeral
procession traditions of African slaves.
The Romashka Eastern European Collective unites several
Eastern European music projects sharing a common mission:
to fill NYC’s growing appetite for live Eastern European
folk music.
About The Village Klezmer Quintet:
(www.romashka.net/vkq)
The youthful, vibrant sound of the Village Klezmer Quintet
brings the old world melodies and rhythms of the Eastern
European Jews back to cafes, clubs, and celebrations all
around NYC boroughs and beyond. The group’s weekly shows
at Café and new fans, and the band’s members are welcome
and frequent entertainers at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and
other events around the tri-state area.
About Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance Party Band:
(www.romashka.net/gypsy)
Romashka plays the music of Eastern European gypsies.
Gypsy muzica for dancing and dreaming… the band’s
repertoire includes gypsy and traditional Romanian and
Russian music. The musicians are a wild bunch of virtuoso
rhythm-throttling chop-splitting Brooklyn-dwelling world
music afficionados, who have gigged in various Klezmer,
Balkan, jazz, funk,and ska ensembles around the city.