Opening Hours 20.00-04.00
K-18 /Age 18
Tickets 39,90 € from http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1908
Face Book Event https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225439220813563
FANFARE CIOCARLIA LIVE/ ROMANIA
BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC LIVE/ SERBIA
BAD ASS BRASS BAND LIVE/ FIN
DJ ROBERT SOKO /BALKAN BEATS/ GER
DJ BORZIN & DJ LEVY FEAT. VLADA KEKEZ / FIN
In November The Circus in Helsinki will host an event like nothing
seen before on the Finnish stages, a battle of the worlds two biggest
Balkan brass bands. The musical fighters are the Romanian Fanfare
Ciocarlia and the Serbian Boban & Marko Markovich. This time the dance
bands that can often only be heard in the static concert halls will
perform their music the way they are supposed to: aiming for the dance
floor.
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocarlia is a brass band consisting of twelve Romanian
Romani. They have performed over thousand concerts in over fifty
countries, and released five internationally acclaimed and awarded
albums. In addition to the traditional Romani and Balkan influences
they fuse elements of international pop, flamenco and Bollywood into
their fast paced music. The band themselves cheekily define their
music as Balkan Funk. Known for their frantic performances the band
never plays their music from note sheets. They skillfully improvise
their songs into fresh new forms in each and every one of their
concerts.
Boban & Marko Markovic
The Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra has been the leading Balkan Brass
band in Serbia over the last 17 years. The band based on brass and
percussion's is led by Boban Markovic, the man often crowned as the
best trumpet player of the Balkans. They perform a fresh take on
traditional Balkan music, and they have already released nine albums.
The band's music is also well known from the soundtracks of several
Balkan films, the most famous of them being the awarded "Underground"
by Emir Kusturica.
The other Markovic in the band's name is Boban's son Marko, who joined
his father's group in the age of 14. Before joining he had been
practising for up to 10 hours a day, the rumour says. The band has
been warded several times, and they are immensely popular in both the
Balkans and the rest of the world. They regularly perform at the
world's biggest festivals for tens of thousands of people, and in the
Hungarian festival of Sziget even Oasis had to re-schedule their
performance as the festival's ecstatic audience would not leave the
stage after the performance of Boban & Marko Markovic.
In addition to the live bands the event will host a performance of DJ
Robert Soko, the founder of the Berlin based Club "Balkan Beats". Soko
and his Brand are considered to be some of the biggest forces behind
the recent huge international success of Balkan music.
The domestic cream is represented by Bad Ass Brass Band and the Balkan
Fever Club DJ's Borzin and Levy. Plus Serbian Born Vladimir Kekez on
Darbuka.
www.myspace.com/fanfareciocarlia
www.myspace.com/thebadassbrassband
