Thursday Balkan Boogie with Zenekar & Greshka
Event description
Swing into the fabulous "It's Still a Secret" on Montague road for a delicious cocktail, some nibbles and be blown away by bombastic beats, silly segues and phenomenal French um music. And lots of alliteration.
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Zenekar are a multi-genre ensemble who primarily play a mixture of folk musics of Eastern Europe, along with Gypsy Jazz, Brazilian Choro and early Swing. The group is Catharina Kemp on Clarinet, John Reeves on Accordion, Samuel Vincent on Bass and Dave Kemp on Percussion. They were finalists for the Qld Music Award in World Music in 2023 for the live recording of their performance at the Qld Multicultural Centre earlier that year. They will debuting some new music at Balkan Boogie!
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Have you been feeling run down? You probably have a Vitamin S deficiency. Come to a Greshka gig for a big healthy nourishing dose of Vitamin Silly. They play music from Eastern Europe, gypsy, Balkan, klezmer – and all of it made extra silly with synthesisers, cimbaloms and singalongs. Greshka play music which sounds like the contents of Spongebob Squarepants suitcase as he sets sail for Sweden. There’s snappy sârbăs, synthonic ska and Serbian-style swing. It’s incessantly sporadic, spectacularly stupid, seldom stodgy, syllabically superfluous and unceasingly exceptionally SILLY!
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Bar open from 4pm.
Music from 7pm.
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