PORTMAHOMACK: Carnegie Hall

THU 30TH MAY, 2013 Doors 7.30pm Performance 8pm

www.budapestcafeorchestra.co.uk

CHRIS GARRICK – violin & darbuka
EDDIE HESSION – free bass accordion
KELLY CANTLON – double bass
ADRIAN ZOLOTUHIN – guitar, saz, balalaika

Embarking on it's 3rd annual tour of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland in 2013...

The Budapest Café Orchestra play powerful and driving folk-based music from Eastern Europe inspired by the music of European gypsies. The richness and dynamism of Balkan music is on display here in all its untameable glory in a wide-ranging programme of impassioned Hungarian Czardas, tender Russian folk melodies, rollicking dances from Romania and Moldavia, bitter sweet Jewish laments, one or two electrifying compositions of the group's own making plus a few surprises along the way...