Friday 05.02. Eastway & Balkan Fever present: Mahala Rai Banda (Romania)

THIS Friday 05.02.2010

Eastway & Balkan Fever present:

For the first time in Finland !

Mahala Rai Banda (Romania) in concert

support Finno-Balkan Voices conducted by Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova (Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares)

And Balkan Fever !!! Hosts / Djs Borzin & Levy: You'll get the best Balkan Beats around.

Location: Vanha Ylioppilastalo
Address: Mannerheimintie 3 Helsinki Finland

Time: Doors Open 19.00

21- 03
Tickets: 39,70 €
Get Your pre-sale tickets from menolippu:
http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1621

If you want to plan your evening here is the timetable.

19.00 Doors open: Background music selected by Balkan Fever Djs.

21.00-22.30 DJ Levy & DJ Borzin 1. set

22.30-23.00 Finno-Balkan Voices

23.00-23.45 DJ Levy & DJ Borzin 2. set

23.45-01.15 Mahala Rai Banda

01.15-02.30 DJ Levy & DJ Borzin 3. set

Finno-Balkan Voices will be warming up, to give a taste of their next day's concert in SibaFest: http://www.siba.fi/fi/sibafest/ohjelma/lauantai_6.2.2010. Conducted by Bulgaria's finest: Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova of the legendary "Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares"! We guarantee that it will be very difficult to leave the dancefloor before 02.30. Unforgettable Balkan party night it will be!
Mahala Rai Banda

Their new cd "Ghetto Blasters" has been ruling the world music charts lately and was chosen the "Album of The Year 2009"

by The Songlines Magazine!

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2009

Balkan party music, ripping along at a noisy pace, and with all the showmanship you could ask for. The singer carols and plunges, the trumpets patter like hail on a plastic roof. Everything is briskly aggressive, bright as polished teeth: the taut, tight work of specialists. Forensic in its giddiness. One part of the band comes from north-east Romania, the same place as Fanfare Ciocârlia, and the other from the south, the same place as Taraf de Haïdouks. Brass there, fiddles here. The two groups have cross-pollinated. Traditional music, yes, village music, yes, "folk" music yes, but with a clear commercial goal: it wants to grab your bits in its fist, press your ears back against your skull, and make you pay attention. Reportedly good live too.

Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=701407821#/event.php?eid=227338800350&ref=ts

Don't miss this one if You're into Balkan music!