Friday Jan.13 Golden Fest and schedule
ZLATNE USTE BRASS BAND
Friday Jan. 13th celebrate Orthodox New Year’s at Golden Fest with Zlatne Uste and much more at the Grand Prospect Hall!
photo Margaret Loomis 2011 Golden Fest
The whole evening for the nice price of $25 with advance purchase.
Dance workshop with Steve Kotansky and live music by
7:30 – Cherven Traktor
8:00 – Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band
Dance party
8:30 – Cherven Traktor – Bulgarian folk music featuring Nikolay Kolev on gadulka (bowed rebec) and Donka Koleva on vocals
9 – Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band – from kolos to Kosturica – Romany and Slavic music of the Balkans
10- Svitanya – Balkan dance music by a stunning Eastern European Women’s Vocal Ensemble from Philadelphia – listen
10:35 – Kavala Brass Band with Lefteris Bournia on clarinet – sublime clarinet and brass music from Greece and surrounds
11:15 – Ralph Iverson on gadulka
11:30 – MAL’CHIKI I D’EVUSHKI – Balkan folk party music – listen
12:15 – Raya Brass Band – exhuberant balkan music from the village of Brooklyn – listen
The preliminary Saturday schedule is at: http://www.goldenfest.org/detailed-schedule/
Full cash bar both nights.
Good health to everyone!
-Belle and Michael
info@nycfolkdance.org
belleandmichael@zlatneuste.org
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Golden Festival 2012
NYC’s Festival of Music and Dance from the Balkans and Beyond
Sponsored by Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band
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Friday & Saturday, Jan. 13th & 14th Grand Prospect Hall, Brooklyn New York’s biggest Balkan music event and showcase, is back in Brooklyn for its 27th anniversary, January 13th and 14th, 2012 at Grand Prospect Hall, a spectacularly restored historic landmark in Park Slope. All music is live. 7:30 pm Friday begins with an hour long dance workshop, then continues with music and dance until 12:30 am. 6 pm Saturday the festival resumes and doesn’t wind down until early Sunday morning Discount tickets and all sorts of useful information on the website at www.goldenfest.org Last year’s festival boasted 71 separate performances, Saturday on 4 concurrent stages. Groups played and sang Albanian, Bulgarian, Romany (Gypsy), Macedonian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Norwegian, Klezmer, Ukrainian, Georgian music, and more. The preliminary schedule for this year’s festival is at http://www.goldenfest.org/detailed-schedule/ Dancing is encouraged; no prior experience is required. Enjoy unusual rhythms, mouth-watering Balkan refreshments, and fine folk arts vendors. Enter a community where young and old, corporate and artsy, professional and enthusiast, hipster and folk dancer come together through a shared love of music. Join a circle and dance hand-in-hand with the friends you came with, and the friends you haven’t met yet. Entrance to the festival is $25 for Friday and $50 for Saturday. All the musicians volunteer their time. Profits are donated to charitable or educational organizations serving Balkan cultures and communities. Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band (www.zlatneuste.org) founded the Golden Festival in 1986 and has sponsored it ever since. Grand Prospect Hall, 263 Prospect Avenue, between 5th and 6th Aves, Brooklyn, NY Friday, Jan 13th, 7:30 pm – 12:30 am; Admission: $25, students with ID $20 Saturday, Jan 14th, 6 pm – 2 am; Admission: $50, students: $40 Two Night Festival Admission: $70, students $55 Children 12 and under: free Discount tickets for advance online purchase via the website,www.goldenfest.org Complimentary Balkan & Middle Eastern Snacks/Cash Bar Subway: R to Prospect Ave. Limited on-site valet parking $10 Facebook: Golden Festival 2012 NY TimeOutNY, critics’ pick, 2011: “Boogie your heart out to border-defying Balkan tunes at this yearly festival.” “the city’s biggest Balkan bash” David Byrne: “New York’s only music and dance festival of its kind”, “The time signatures in some of their music were beyond complicated, but it grooved at the same time.” ============================= –Jan. 4 & 11 Golden Fest prep dance classes with Michael Ginsburg –Jan. 13 & 14 – The Zlatne Uste Golden Festival –Jan. 15 – Golden Fest wrap-up party at drom — all door proceeds go to out of town bands and discount admission for Golden Fest participants |
Upcoming Shows
| The Golden Festival | New York, NY | Fri Jan 13 12 | 07:00 PM | Tickets |
| The Golden Festival | New York, NY | Sat Jan 14 12 | 05:30 PM | Tickets |
| Azra and Pero Teodosijev, with Zlatne Uste | New York, NY | Sat Mar 10 12 | 08:00 PM | |
| Friends of the Performing Arts (FOPAC) | Concord, MA | Sat Mar 17 12 | 07:00 PM | Tickets |
| New Jersey Folk Festival | New Brunswick, NJ | Sat Apr 28 12 | 10:00 AM | Tickets |
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