Thursday Balkan Boogie with Zhiva Voda & Greshka

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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Renowned for their performance of Bulgarian folk music and song, Zhiva Voda (“Water of Life”) offers a unique and vibrant musical experience celebrating the traditions of Reni Pavlova-Bojilov's homeland. Reni and Australian born Ann Bermingham create soaring solos and spinetingling harmonies, telling universal stories of love, longing and everyday life.

On several of their songs, Zhiva Voda will be joined by Malindy Morris of East of West, who with her masterful percussion, will add another dimension to the duo's music.

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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.