Thank you to all the people who came out and supported our multicultural experiment with such enthusiasm! And apologies to the many who didn’t get in. Advance tickets next time? It’s the best way!
We’ll post photos soon, there should be some good ones as we hired a photographer to document the occasion.
Big thanks to the crew and volunteers who did a fantastic job. Shows like this are a lot of work! But we’ll keep doing them… actually, we’ve just announced the next one!
Our next big signature event is only one day away, and this show will DEFINITELY sell out, nearly 200 tickets already sold! Tickets are $17 advance and are available online at http://www.brownpapertickets.
There will be bar tables and chairs, as well as a large dance area. There will be Mexican and Serbian food, and of course quality drinks of various kinds. Tequila and Sljivovica! Arrive early to learn folk dancing to the most popular Mexican and Serbian folk songs.
Large table reservations are full.
Check out Mariachi Los Dorados at http://www.losdorados.ca/.
Our guest band will be Parno Drom, East European Roma style music featuring accordion, violin, guitar, and vocals! (www.ParnoDrom.com).
See the event listing for details.
News Flash: Mariachi Trubachi tickets will be on sale! Bring $$! This one is sure to sell out!
Many thanks to everyone who came out on Friday and Saturday for our self-produced West is East Festival! We will do it again sometime, no?
Here’s an article and photos: http://digitaljournal.com/
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We have two more shows this year, Friday December 16 at Cafe Deux Soleil, and Solstice at Britannia Community Centre on Wednesday the 21st!
http://secretlantern.org/index.html, http://www.facebook.com/events/276925095691657/
Stay tuned for our CD release party early in the new year!
It’s shaping up to be a great show! We’ll have chai tea, turkish coffee, sausages from JNZ deli, baklava and other ethnic food, several choices of beer and wine, Sljivovica (the good stuff from Serbia!), and oh yes, a little bit of music too!
Tickets on sale at Highlife records, 1317 Commercial, and online here: caravanbc.com. Note the 2-day special advance rate of $26 (value of $35 if you buy tickets separately at the door).
We’ve just added the option to reserve a table for 10 people. Contact us directly to arrange this. You need to buy advance tickets for 10 or more people and arrive by 8 pm, but you get $1 off the advance ticket price and no service charges! email us: orkestars (at) gmail (dot) com.
Where else can you hear non-stop 100% live music from 7:30 until 1 am in a “village hall” atmosphere? Nowhere else in this town!
August is already a warm memory, as band members scattered to the wind, some laying at beaches, some making a killing with commercial fishing, some visiting family back east, and a few lucky ones travelling to France, Macedonia, and Serbia, including Guca! Yes, some of us watched the finals, shook hands with Boban Markovic, and marveled at perhaps the best trumpet solo of all time, by Sinisa Stankovic (who inexplicably did NOT win!). Some lessons and research in Vranje and Skopje left two of us just a little more versed in the magic of Balkan Brass music. Come to our next show and see if you can hear a difference!
Also, just as the final concert was being held at Guca, our beloved accordion player Alyssa welcomed a lovely screaming little mini-person into the world!
So now we begin a very busy fall season, with two tours to the Island and several local gigs already behind us. Tonight we play at the recently renovated Waldorf for the Accordion Noir festival, and October 7 we begin our fall season of monthly Sljivovica Social Club nights at Raw Canvas, the closest thing you will find here to a Belgrade barge club or Kafana!
In December we will be hosting a new signature event in collaboration with Caravan World Rhythms, called “West is East”. Confirmed acts are Tambura Rasa, Haram, Zeellia, Raha Ensemble, and several more in the works!
Check the calendar as new shows are being booked weekly. See you soon!
Orkestar Slivovica
2011 Guca trumpet festival, Serbia:
Roma Wedding in Vranje, Serbia (Statue of Bakija Bakic in background, trubaci star Nenad Mladenovic in foreground)
After an insanely busy July, we are now on hiatus until September while various members are scattered around the country and the world on their own adventures. Some of us are visiting friends and family all over Canada, while two of us are on an R&D mission to Serbia (Guca!), Macedonia (Wine!), and Bosnia (Sevdalinka!).
Our big thanks to all of you who let us be part of your events, and for all of you who attended and brought such great energy to our shows! Special thanks to those who chose us for their special private events (including FOUR separate 50th Birthday celebrations!): Srdjan, Dave, Judith, Liz and Frank, JNZ Deli, Victoria’s Turkish Society, Faye, and of course Vesna!
Thanks to AJ for stepping in as summer sub on the baritone/tenor horn and filling on for Susan and Cory who are away traveling. She learned her parts in record time, and made every single gig since end of June!
And best wishes to accordionist and founding member Alyssa, who is on the verge of popping out a new potential recruit for the band!
This fall you can look forward to our CD release, and lots of great shows. If you want us for your event, let us know soon, we’re now booked up right through middle of October!
See you in September,
Orkestar Šlivovica
We have a very busy June and July, mostly filled with private events. Then we are on hiatus all of August while we scatter to the corners of the world (including Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia for some of us!). But fear not, we are booking lots of cool shows in September and onwards!
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