Budapest Café Orchestra

Budapest Café Orchestra

Sat 23 Jun 2018
20:00-22:00 (2h)
Budapest Cafe Orchestra
"The music Is magic in their hands"
Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3
"Not so much a band name as a whole genre of its own, Budapest Café Orchestra embraces an encyclopaedia of music and mischief,,,being kept on tenterhooks is one of the pleasures of encountering the musical masters of Harringay in their charity shop chic, down-the-river hats and standard lamp-lit stage set"
Rob Adams, Herald Scotland
Unreserved seating.
_ Price: £15 / £14
_ Age Group: All ages (under 18s accompanied)
_ Venue: Library Gallery
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Led by leading violinist and composer, Christian Garrick, the Budapest Café Orchestra play traditional folk & gypsy flavoured music from across the world. Raucous, toe-tapping Balkan and Russian numbers are combined with jazz and swing inflections whilst Klezmer, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas are awarded fresh treatments before they give way to a disarmingly beautiful arsenal of ballads such as the Schindler’s List theme or Andy Statman’s bitter sweet The Flatbush Waltz.

The group recorded The Gaelic Chronicles in 2014, an album which highlights their particular affinity with the Scottish Highlands and Islands, having toured here extensively over the past eight years. This is their fifth appearance at Summerhall.

Budapest Café Orchestra are:

CHRISTIAN GARRICK (violin, doumbek)
EDDIE HESSION (button accordion)
ADRIAN ZOLOTUHIN (guitar, domra, balalaika, saz)
KELLY CANTLON (double bass)

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