Veveritse in the line up at Freddy's Dec 14

DEBUTANTE HOUR + 3 other bands

Maria Sonyvetsky and her DEBUTANTE HOUR Play at Freddy's with an
amazing lineup including Grits and Harmony, Dave Novak and the Trailblazers,
and Veveritse brass band. SO FUN, people.


Friday, Dec. 14th - FREDDY'S - 485 Dean St. - 9:00pm - Brooklyn -

Which Way East at the Tap Room Dec 14

Friday the 14th

Which Way East is at the Tap Room at the Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street, New York, NY 10019
212 219-3006

starting at 8 o'clock

Which Way East is:

Jesse Kotansky- Violin
Patrick Harison- Accordian
Rich Stein- Percussion
Jordan Scannella- Bass
Eva Salina Primack- Vocals

Astoria Dec 16 - greek american folklore society xmas party

GAFS CHRISTMAS PARTY
With food, wine, dance and live music with your favorite traditional musicians!
Sunday, December 16 @ 4:00 P.M.

GAFS Place
21-80 Crescent St., Astoria NY
Ditmars stop N/W trains

Contribution: $20 @ the door
For information call (718) 956 3544

Dec 14th SSP at HH

Slavic Soul Party at Folk dance Fridays at Hungarian House UES
doors open 8pm, live music begins at 8:30pm $15 at the door
Hungarian House, 213 E. 82nd St., Manhattan
Info: 718-645-9142 or info@nycfolkdance.org

WELLSPRING with Antarsia ensemble Dec 13, 14, 15 LIC

You are invited to the Chocolate Factory for WELLSPRING (a work-in-progress) presented by the Hourglass Group, Ltd.

Written by Ruth Margraff
Directed by Elyse Singer
Music by Nikos Brisco

Performed by Jennifer Gibbs, Stephen Bel Davies, Tony Naumovski and the Cafe Antarsia Ensemble: Nikos Brisco, Ruth Margraff, Ron Riley & Rami El-Aasser

Thursday, December 13, Friday, December 14th & Saturday, December 15, 2007
@ 8:00 PM @ THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 5-49 49th Ave L.I.C. New York 11101
(718) 482-7069

Wellspring is Ruth Margraff's new "world folk opera" set in 1999 war-torn Sarajevo. It follows a United Nations peacekeeper in Bosnia-Herzegovina as she is serenaded by two brothers with war criminal poetry and Maxfield Parrish lutes. Wellspring merges western and eastern music in a live score by composer Nikos Brisco influenced by both Greek/Ottoman urban blues and the Romani/Gypsy music of the Balkan marketplace.
Directed by Elyse Singer, Wellspring will feature the acclaimed Cafe Antarsia Ensemble. Wellspring is directly inspired by Ruth Margraff's travels to visit her mother who worked in Bosnia as a peacekeeper from 1998-2003 helping refugees return to their destroyed homes and cataloguing war crimes of local police. This radical libretto also draws inspiration from the rival troubadours and haunting gypsy ghosts of Verdi's Il Trovatore.

WFMU remote from Barbes - December 8th

Featuring live performances by Julian Kytasty / Bandura Downtown, champions of the bandura, a 36 string traditional Ukrainian lute; Les Chauds Lapins, who revisit French popular song from the first half of the twentieth century; Colombian guitarist Sebastian Cruz’s Latin-rooted but genre-busting Cheap Landscape Quartet plus the Bulgarian vocal stylings of Black Sea Hotel Ltd. And free FMU swag for all! Free admission; join us at Barbes, 376 9th St at 6th Ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn from 6-9pm

String Band Extravaganza Dec 6th

Invitiation from Rima Fand:
I'd like to invite you to a string band extravaganza this Thursday night, Dec. 6th, at the lovely UkrainianEast Village Restaurant. There will be three ferociously fiddling bands, a big dance floor, and great food. Please come!

World on a String Band

Ljova and the Vjola Contraband

Luminescent Orchestrii

Thursday, Dec. 6

8:30 pm Ukrainian East Village Restaurant (in the back room)

140 2nd Ave, bet St. Marks & 9th St.Manhattan$10/person