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JR Hankins leads the Brooklyn based Balkan brass band Veveritse (The Squirrels)The What Cheer Brigade brings their brass and persussion craziness from Providence, RIBrooklyn based Slavic Soul Party! plays Balkan brass rock fusion for dancingFrank London, Eva Salina Primack, Peter Stan, and Ron Caswell play smoky Balkan songsSouren Baronian is known for his jazz influenced Balkan taksims (long wandering solos)Sisters Ariana and Amberly Rosen play Balkan dance tunes as a sideline to their classical careersOn stage antics of the Yuri Yunakov Bulgarian wedding band with Sal Mamudovski on clarinetSteve Kotansky dances to the group Zurli Drustvo, playing the piercing double reed Macedonian zurlas with tupan (also called daouli or davul), a double sided drumDancers fill up The Grand Ballroom to Bulgarian village folk music by the group Lyuti Chuski (Hot Peppers) from Washington, DCThe West Philadelphia Orchestra playing Balkan dance tunesTraditional designs are applied at the henna booth in the bazaar (“charshija”) on the balconyPesnopojka, Bulgarian women’s song with gadulka, a Bulgarian bowed fiddle, and tupan (also called daouli or davul), a double sided drumLoretta Kelley plays the Norwegian hardingfele for dancing from Telemark, Norway… a far North “Balkan” country 😉Balkan finger food, “meze”, is part of the deal
