Past Concerts

gerardo Balestrieri et les travailleurs de la nuit
directly from Italy to davis

Saturday December 5, 2009
At 7pm
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis
Tickets: $12 reserved, $15 at the door

Gerardo Balestrieri - Vocals, Accordion, Clarinet
Fabrice Martinez (of Fishtank Ensemble) Violin

Roland Martinez - Bass

Doug Smolens (of Fishtank Ensemble)
Guitar

Sean Tergis - Percussions

Gerardo Balestrieri is a purveyor of a lush mediterannean
and sardonic Tom Waits-style sound,with rembetiko, turkish,
neapolitan, french and italian songs in an ensemble of accordion,
clarinet, vocals, djumbush, violin, percussions and upright bass.
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Originally from Naples, Gerardo Balestrieri incorporates the vibrant colors and texture
of his native lands music into his kaleidescope of cultures in his music.
With a deep, sardonic baritone often infused with bittersweet longing, he sings of love,
clowns and musical scripture, longing for homelands
and of social irony.
His travels throughout eastern europe and greece have inspired his accordion
and clarinet playing, and his open character has led him to wed eastern european,
middle eastern, and western european music.
His earlier album, I Nasi Buffi e la Scrittura Musicale, blends french chanson italian poetry,
greek rembetikoh, and his own style.
His latest, Un Turco Napolitano, is an hommage to his native Naples with a turkish band,
blending two different- and yet surprisingly similar,passionate musical cultures.
Gerardo is joining members of Fishtank Ensemble (Fabrice Martinez on violin,
his old friend and musical comrade back in Italy)
and Doug Smolens on guitar. Rounding out his US ensemble are Roland Martinez from
France on bass (Fabrice's brother)
and Sean Tergis of the San Francisco turkish ensemble Delikanli on percussion.

The Helladelics                                                                            

 www.helladelics.com

Saturday  October 17, 2009

     at  7 pm

Village Homes Community Center

    2661 Portage Bay  East, Davis

Tickets:   $12 reserved,   $15 at the door

The Helladelics is a Bay Area band specializing in traditional Greek

roots music. While having a special fondness for the hypnotic, bluesy

material from the Epirus region of northwestern Greece, their

repertoire also spans the region: from the upbeat dance tunes from

Thrace to the sweet vocal songs from the islands, as well as some

jaunts to Asia Minor and Armenia as well.

The group consists of:

Mary Hofer Farris - Clarinet and Saxophone

Michele Simon - Vocal, Percussions

Gari Hegedus

Gari plays violin, viola and a variety of stringed instruments from Greece and Turkey including lauoto, oud, saz and hand drums.

Tom Farris - Laouto

STELLAMARA in concert, CD release Party -- Original music from the Balkans, the Near East, and beyond…

Stellamara featured musicians:
Sonja Drakulich- Vocals, Hammered Dulcimer, Frame Drum
Gari Hegedus- Oud, Saz, Tarhu, Madocello, Setar, Cümbü?
Peter Jaques- Clarinet, Ney, Trumpet
Faisal Zedan- Darbuka, Riqq, Frame Drum
Sean Tergis- Tapan, Frame Drum, Riqq

www.stellamara.com

Where:
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East in Davis

When:
Sunday, August 9th Show starts at 7:00pm

Tickets:
$10 in advance & $12 at the door
Reservation: contact Gil at (530) 867-1032 or via email; info@timnatalmusic.com

Stellamara began when vocalist Sonja Drakulich followed her vision and created a vehicle for the development of devotional music based in Near Eastern and medieval modal traditions. Extraordinary musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds have since come together within the vessel of Stellamara, creating original music with a common intention: to celebrate love, beauty and unity through transcendent harmony, perfect dissonance, and passionate rhythm.
Rooted in Turkish, Arabic, Balkan, Medieval European and Persian musical traditions, Stellamara carries a deep devotion to the music of these cultures and transmits it with a unique timeless expression.
At Stellamara’s core are Sonja Drakulich and multi-instrumentalist Gari Hegedus. Their ensemble includes an all-star cast of musicians from near and far: co-writer and cellist Rufus Cappodocia, clarinetist Peter Jaques (of Brass Menagerie), Arabic percussionist Faisal Zedan, and percussionist Evan Frasier. Together they create a bridge that transports the listener out of the ordinary world into the realm of the sublime.
Stellamara is currently celebrating their 3rd critically-acclaimed CD release, The Golden Thread, which was recorded with their mentors and collaborators, Ross Day and Kelly Thoma, on the island of Crete.
With their world-renowned discography, licensing, and film score placements, Stellamara is at the forefront in creating highly innovative recordings and performances. They are internationally regarded as being at the forefront of contemporary world music, giving new life and a fresh, modern expression to the beautiful and mysterious qualities of traditional modal music

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Eliyahu & Qadim Ensemble

Sunday, July 19 at 7 PM
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For information and reservations: 530-867-1032

Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

About The Qadim Ensemble

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REVIEWS:

Stellamara is a global symphony spun
through minarets and grounded in the earth.
*****
—John Dilberto, Pulse

Stellamara manages to maintain a balance of reverence for the music of other people’s cultures with a haunting elegance of expression....
—Electronic Musician

...Drakulich has as singular a vocal style as
Lisa Gerrard does, but with the added allure of a siren.****
—Mark Burbey, Alternative Press

Having enjoyed Stellamara’s ethereal world beat exotica on CD for some years now, I have no explanation for my stunned reaction when vocalist Sonja Drakulich sang her first note at the Vault, other than that this was the first definitive proof I’ve seen that such a perfect voice does, in fact, come from a human being. Drakulich stepped on the Vault stage looking a little like Cate Blanchett in The Lord of the Rings, quickly winning the
audience over with her world-class singing and unpretentious stage presence. One of the most impressive tricks she pulled out was a highly disciplined vocal waver: imagine an impressionist voice painting of a flickering candle flame. She and the other half of Stellamara’s core, multi-instrumental string lord Gari Hegedus, were joined by two lively percussionists and a new member, cellist Rufus Cappadocia, who exorcised notes from his instrument with a near obsessive passion.
—Good Times

Eliyahu Sills: Ney, Vocals, Oud

Rachel Valfer: Vocals, Oud, Kemenche, Acoustic Guitar

John Villa: Percussions

Guest musician;  Gari Hegedus: Oud, Divan Saz, Tarhu

                                www.QadimMusic.com

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Hohlax Trio

Sunday, June 21 at 7 PM
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For information and reservations: 530-867-1032

Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
www.myspace.com/hohlax


JAIME SMITH, a native of Sacramento California, graduated with a degree in Violin Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1999 she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study the traditional music of Greece in Athens with Yiannis Zevgolis, and then continued under the direction of Kyriakos Gouventas. She has spent the last 9 years living in Athens and performing all over Greece and Cyprus with celebrated artists. Jaime has recorded with the renowned composer Nikos Mamagakis, and is high demand for radio and television." " >>ORESTIS KOLETSOS was born in Paris and grew up in Athens. He studied music from his early childhood and started playing bouzouki at 15. Orestis was a student of Yiannis Palaiologou, one of the most important bouzouki players in the Greek recording industry and performance venues. For the past 10 years he has been playing bouzouki in concerts and in nightclubs. He has performed for composers such as Nikos Mamagakis and Ilias Andriopoulos for concerts, television and radio programs." " >>APOSTOLIS KOUNIS comes from Central Greece (Larissa). He began singing and playing guitar at the age of 12. He studied at the Modern School of Music in Thessaloniki. In Athens, he studied with Vassilis Rakopoulos, a prominent recording artist of eclectic styles. Apostolis has also studied Byzantine Music and Music Harmony. He is a student of the oud with Christos Tsiamoulis. Apostolis is in demand on the music scene in Athens and participates in significant concerts, seminars and documentaries on Greek television."

An Evening of Greek Rembetiko

"Just like the Old Days"

All the way from Amorgos, Greece……

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The HOHLAX trio was formed in 2007 on the Greek island of Amorgos . The name HOHLAX refers to the beach HOHLAKAS, where the members of the group have spent many summers together. This beach, provided much inspiration and gives the group members of HOHLAX a unique energy and force, which, together with their dedication to the music tradition of Greece, makes for a unique and moving musical experience. HOHLAX has played in almost all of the music venues on AMORGOS and has also enjoyed performing in Athens .
The Hohlax Trio are:
Jaime Smith – Violin
Orestis Koletsos – Bouzouki
Apostolis Kounis – Guitar, Oud & Vocals

www.myspace.com/hohlax

What is Rembetiko?:


"Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek ρεμπέτικο and ρεμπέτικα respectively), occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is the name for a type of Greek urban folk music. A roots music form of sorts, the sound of the genre reflects the combined influences of European and Middle Eastern music. Rebetiko music properly speaking developed in the communities of Greek refugees from Asia Minor in the wake of the population exchange of 1923. These refugees settled primarily in Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki. By combining the Anatolian musical modes they had been familiar with in Asia Minor with the native musical traditions they found in Greece proper, they created a type of music which reflected their dispossessed condition and their response to it.  Rebetiko music has sometimes been called the Greek blues, since like the blues, it grew out of a specific urban subculture and reflected the harsh realities of an oppressed subculture's lifestyle: poverty, alienation, crime, drink, drugs prostitution, and violence. But rebetiko's subject matter also extends to other subjects: romance and passion, social matters, people such as the mother, death, the difficulties of living in a foreign country, army life, war, trivial matters of everyday life, exotic places, poverty, labor, illnesses, and the minor sorrows of people. Also like the blues, rebetiko progressed from being a music associated with the lower classes to becoming during the 1960s and later a revived musical form of wide popularity, especially among younger people. Rebetiko music was closely associated with the mangas Greek urban subculture. Finally, rebetiko songs usually display the same chord progressions found in songs from classic Mississippi delta bluesmen like Robert Johnson and others .

All the rebetiko songs are based on traditional Greek or Anatolian dance rhythms, zeibekikos, aptalikos, chasapikos and servikos being very common but they also include tsifteteli, karsilamas, syrtos and other dance styles."

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A native of Santa Cruz, California, Eva Salina Primack has been studying, performing, and teaching Balkan music for most of her life. She has traveled and performed internationally, worked with many well-known Balkan and American musicians, and lives in Brooklyn. In addition to her work with Æ, Eva sings with Slavic Soul Party! (www.slavicsoulparty.com), the Italian balkan/jazz project opacupa (www.myspace.com/opacupa) , Which Way East (www.myspace.com/whichwayeast) , Seido Salifoski's Romski Boji, and Kadife. Past collaborations and projects include Edessa (www.edessamusic.com), Tzvetanka Varimezova, and KITKA (www.kitka.org).


With a foundation in classical voice, Aurelia Shrenker has sung traditional music from around the world since she was thirteen. Originally from Massachusetts, Aurelia has traveled extensively, touring Europe and the United States with Vermont-based Northern Harmony (www.northernharmony.pair.com). She currently performs as a soloist and with Æ. Aurelia has studied Georgian music for eight years and has visited the Republic several times as a musician, volunteer, and tour-guide. A former student of ethnomusicology at UCLA, Aurelia currently lives in Brooklyn and studies arts, education, and social justice at NYU.

www.aesings.com (site still in development)

Sunday, May 3, at 7 PM
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA.
For more information & reservations: 530-867-1032
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

Gopal Slavonic is considered one of the finest flamenco guitar players in California. He has studied and played flamenco guitar for 14 years, and spent two years in Sevilla, Spain at La Fundacion Christina Heeren where he had the opportunity to study with flamenco guitar greats Miguel Angel Cortes, Eduardo Rollabar, Antonio Carmona and Jose Luis Postigo. Gopal is a local of Nevada City and is dedicated to bringing quality flamenco to Northern California. In this upcoming concert, he will be accompanied by Frank Giordano, rhythm guitarist, and percussionist John Martin III, who adds an Udu drum from Nigeria and Flamenco body percussion to his exotic Caribbean, percussion blend of Congas, Cajon, Djembe, Clave, Palmas and passionate vocals. Both these musicians are the co-founders of Cerro Negro, a celebrated Nouevo Flamenco group based in San Diego. This promises to be an exciting evening, as these three fine musicians join together to bring a blend of traditional and contemporary Flamenco music to an intimate setting in Davis.
www.myspace.com/gopalslavonic
www.cerronegro.net

Gopal Slavonic on Flamenco Guitar
Frank Giordano on Rhythm Guitar
John Martin III on Percussions

About the photo: from L. to R. Frank, Gopal, John

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Cançonièr

Medieval/Renaissance Duo
with Middle Eastern and Balkan influences

Sunday, March 29, at 7 PM
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA.
For more information & reservations: 530-867-1032
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

Tim Rayborn on percussion, psaltery, harp, symponie, ud and voice
Annette Bauer on recorders

Tim Rayborn, an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, has been active in the fields of world and early music for 18 years. He plays dozens of musical instruments from medieval Europe, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central Asia, including: lutes, plucked strings, flutes, and percussion, as well as being a singer. Tim has toured and collaborated with musicians throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East. www.timrayborn.com

"A superbly talented artist [...] His incredibly diverse skills with countless ancient musical instruments are surpassed only by his extraordinary voice." --Winged Horse

"Tim Rayborn gives us a transcendental look into the heart, culture and beauty of the Middle East." --CD Baby Editor's pick review for Qadim

Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, specializing on recorder techniques with Conrad Steinmann (2001). She holds an MA in music from UC Santa Cruz (2004), and has been a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California since 1998, where she studies North Indian classical music on sarode, a stringed instrument. Annette performs with a variety of musical ensembles and solo projects.
www.annettebauer.com

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Moh Alileche
Folk Music Of the Amazigh People of Algeria

Saturday, February 28 at 8:00pm
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For information and reservations: 530-867-1032
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

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California-based Moh Alileche serves as something of a musical ambassador, calling attention to his people’s plight, The Amazigh of North Africa, who are referred to in the west as Berber.

Moh plays traditional folk music of Kabylia. He is now a leading performer on the Mondol, a 10-silk stringed musical instrument of North African origin. Moh’s songs are written and sung in Tamazight. In 1990, Moh Alileche moved to the United States, settling in the West Coast. Since then he has been a regular at world music festivals, promoting Kabyl culture.

At this concert, Moh will be joined by other musician friends: 

Kevinn Cloud, flutes
Bouchaib Abdelhadi, hand drums
Omar Ait Vimoun, banjo and vocals
 
His music is both beautiful and stirring in its celebration of Amazighen culture. No fan of North African music and culture will regret spending time with this fine music.

www.flagoffreedom.com
http://myspace.com/mohalileche

Black Olive Babes -- Balkan, Romani, Sephardic & American Roots Music

Sunday, January 25 at 7:00pm
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For information and reservations: 530-867-1032
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

Black Olive Babes offer an exciting, eclectic mix of Balkan, Romani, Sephardic and American roots music. These sultry rhythms and soul-stirring melodies create a dance and trance-inducing groove that carries you from the shores of the Black Sea to the foothills of the

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GUTPUPPET - slide guitar & chromatic harmonica duo!

Sunday, October 12 at 7:00pm
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For information and reservations: 530-867-1032
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

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The Indo swami bluegrass duo Gutpuppet is comprised of LA based chromatic harmonica innovator Bill Barrett alongside multi-instrumentalist Scot Ray on 6, 12, & 22 string slide guitars and slide banjo. Gutpuppet is a genre-bending acoustic project that swings the sonic trapeze between Delta Blues, North Indian raga, Bluegrass, and Gypsy imbued transmutations. Come check out what the press has called...

"‘the most inventive and unusual sounding music on the market, mixing dazzling jazz improv’ with musical influences from around the world and
especially from the orient.’’ - Benoit Felten, France

"The best of many worlds...all blended superbly together.’ - DMG, NY

"Another nail in the coffin of dead-end blues, the demonstration that, if we’re lucky enough, heaven-made acoustic music enters our humble garden one way or another.” -- Touching Extremes, Italy

“Shitkick stuff, keening India mojo, balladic meditation.” -- Metaljazz, LA

Scot Ray - slide guitar myspace.com/gutpuppet, myspace.com/scotray

3 Leg Torso

Saturday, October 4, at 8 pm
Village Homes Community Center
2661 Portage Bay East, Davis, CA
For information and reservations: 530-867-1032
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door An all acoustic band that creates high energy, charming, elegant and modern chamber music infused with equal parts tradition and innovation. Influenced by tango, eastern European folk, and other world music traditions.

La Musgaña
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 4pm
The Davis Community Church
412 C St. Davis, California

FREE admission
This concert is sponsored by The Davis Community Church Music Series

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Take the traditional music of Spain, dance tunes, love songs, music for rituals such as weddings and village celebrations, perform it on traditional instruments — bagpipes, wooden flutes., zanfona (hurdy-gurdy)..., then add something contemporary with accordion, guitar, fiddle and clarinets. This is the sound of La Musgaña. Except that you haven´t taken into consideration the basic verve and energy of the band. It is the passion of their performance, their flare for fun, and their commitment to pass this along to their audiences that makes La Musgaña concert the exhilarating event that it is. Even the name of the group is an attempt to get away from the serious treatment of Spanish music. The name means, the water rat.

JAIME MUÑOZ - wooden flutes, clarinets, accordion, bagpipe & soprano sax
CARLOS BECEIRO - cittern, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, bass, hurdy-gurdy
JORGE ARRIBAS - Accordion
DIEGO GALÁZ - violín

Reviews:

"La Musgaña know their onions. They play heartfelt tunes with prodigious whooping and leaping about...A glorious mutant of prime Malicorne versatility and the crack of Silly wizard." --Simon Jones, FOLK ROOTS (England)

"Don’t think, however, that because this is Spanish music it’s a variant of any snappy flamenco. What La Musgaña produces is a dense, more darkly intense music. By turns, it may sound Arab, Irish or vaguely Asian." --Achy Obejas, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"La Musgaña’s take on the folk music of central Spain is as old as the troubadors and as young as the electric guitar, airy stuff - fruited with exquisite melodies, freighted with melancholy and frenzied with irresistible rhythms." --Kevin R, Convey, BOSTON HERALD

"...an enchanting celebration of indigenous Spanish music - merged with Gypsy, Moorish and Celtic influences - performed on an exotic combination of traditional and modern instruments." --Henry Doctorsky, THE FREE-REED REVIEW

"There’s a deep vein of Celtic-influenced culture in West-central Spain. From it, La Musgaña (literally “water rat”) mine rare musical gems. If dancing to 13/8 meters is your metier, La Musgaña is your band. La Musgaña stir bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, cittern, accordion, clarinet and a dozen or so other instruments into a festive musical dish with decidedly Medieval aromas." --GLOBAL RHYTHM MAGAZINE

Sunday  March 2     at  7 pm

Tickets:   $12 reserved,   $15 at the door

Village Homes Community Center

2655 Portage Bay  East, Davis

For tickets and information, call 530-867-1032

In the upcoming event in the series of Traditional/Contemporary World Music concerts, Timna-Tal Music brings to Davis two outstanding performance groups:

From Los Angeles and the S.F. Bay Area, The Fishtank Ensemble, an all acoustic band that has been known to ROCK every venue they play at. The group is led by French-born violinist, Fabrice Martinez who learned the inner workings of the Romani (gypsy) Violin traveling for 7 years in a mule caravan throughout Eastern Europe. His partner in life and on stage, Ursula Knudson, an amazing Vocalist and fidller who also doubles on the Musical Saw and Banjoleelee, shared some of these amazing musical travels. The rest of the ensemble consists of:

Aaron Seeman (Accordion), Douglas Smolens (Guitar), Mike Penny (Shamisen)

 Press Reviews:

“… the Bay Area’s Fishtank Ensemble are the rompin’, stompin’ leaders of cross-pollinated Gypsy music.”

                                                                                                                      -Michael Simmons, LA Weekly

“Their repertoire flows naturally from flamenco to klezmer to Romanian and Hungarian folk and beyond.  There’s no catch here and nothing conceptual at work … It’s just great music played by great musicians.”

                                                                                                            -Will York, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Check the Fishtank Ensemble’s own site at: www.fishtankensemble.com

Greek and Turkish Music

Plus originals inspired by these fertile traditions

              Sunday, May 20, 2007

            Village Homes Community Center,  Davis, CA.                               

~TESLIM~

Teslim (TesLEEM) means both 'commit' and 'surrender' in Turkish and features

Kaila Flexer on Violin and Viola, and Gari Hegedus on various (mostly plucked)

strings including Turkish Saz, Iraqi Oud, Greek Lauoto and Hand Drums.

This potent duo performs traditional music from Greece, Turkey and the Middle East

as well as original music (by Flexer, Hegedus and others) inspired by thesetraditions.   

                                  www.kailaflexer.com     

From Portland, Oregon. 3 Leg Torso;  An all acoustic band that creates charming, elegant and modern chamber pop music infused with equal parts tradition and innovation. Influenced by Tango, Eastern European folk and other world music traditions.  Their cosmopolitan musical style embraces wit and humor within thoughtful, uncommon and beautiful musical arrangements.

3 Leg Torso formed in 1996 as violin, cello and accordion trio with the mission of creating original modern chamber music for their unique instrumentation. Over the following years the band has expanded both its musical mission and its size to become a quintet that now performs its eclectic synthesis of chamber music, tango, klezmer, latin and world music. As principal composers, founding members Béla Balogh (on violin and trumpet) and Courtney Von Drehle (on accordion) provide the core of 3 Leg Torso’s sound. They are joined by veteran percussionist/mallet player Gary Irvine, the fastidious mallets/percussion of Kyle MacLowry and the fiery upright bass player Michael Papillo.

Press Reviews:

"The quintet's level of musicianship is uniformly high, and their ensemble was tight as a drum Saturday night, with fluid transitions and edge-of-the-seat energy." The Oregonian

"All the beauty of Astor Piazolla's music and all the spunk of Kronos Quartet's."- CMJ

"Wildly exciting, wildly eclectic, rather difficult to describe." - Dirty Linen

"A success in the fluid netherworld between serious art and popular culture." - The Oregonian

"3 Leg Torso's classically tinged combination of gypsy folk and whirling tangos is both devilishly clever and damn beautiful." - Willamette Week

Check 3 Leg Torso's own site at: 3 Leg Torso

East Meets West      

Romani/gypsy  extravaganza

Saturday, April 7,  2007      at  8 pm

The International House,  Davis, CA.

Fishtank Ensemble

Bay Area’s rompin’,stompin’ leaders of cross pollinated Gypsy music, featuring: fiddle, accordion, flamenco guitar, musical saw, japanese shamisen lute, bass and amazing vocals.

One of the most exciting live shows on the West Coast – not to be missed!

www.fishtankensemble.com

Luminescent Orchestrii

Gypsy Tango Klezmer Punk acoustic string band from New York City, whose music balances frenzy and finesse.  Featuring violin, viola, bass, resophonic guitar, melodica and bullhorn harmonica.

www.lumii.org

Visit Ross Daly's website>>

Thanks to all for making this event a great success! See the photos >>

Cretean Traditional Music
& Music composed
by Ross Daly

Based on the Modal Musical Structure shared by most Middle Eastern Classical Music Traditions.

Sat October 8, 2005

CSUS
Sacramento State University

Photo: Wayne Tilcock/ The Davis Enterprise

Yair Dalal – Oud, Violin & Vocals

A House Concert
(with Great Host-Bill Wagman)

Iraqi & Iraqi Jewish Traditional Music

Sat Feb 5, 2005. Davis CA

>> Click Dalal's photo to visit his website

Yair Dalal – Oud, Violin & Vocals

Erez Mounk – Percussion

The Judeo Arabic Musical Traditions

Fri Sep 7, 2001. Davis CA

Mohamed Alileche – Vocals & Amandol

Henni Hached – Dumbek

Sadek Haddadou – Bendir

Madjid Ouramdane – Banjo

The Folk Tradition of Kabylia(North Africa)

Sat Jan 27, 2001. Davis CA

Opening the Window of the Heart

An Evening in the company of Rumi - Poetry & Stories performed by

Duncan Mackintosh of the British Shakespeare Theatre

Accompanied on Traditional Instruments by

Hank Levin – Oud & Ney

Norma Novy – Frame Drum

Sat Feb 19, 2000. Davis CA

Omar Ait Vimoun Ensemble

Omar Ait Vimoun – Vocals & Amandol

Ensemble includes: Oud, Violin, Mandolin, Quitra, Flute, Percussion

North African Andalusian(Classical) Music and The Folk tradition of the Imazighen(Berber)

Sat Jan 22, 2000. Davis CA

Ihsan Ozgen – Kemenche, Tanbur, Rebab

Neva Ozgen – Kemenche

Turkish Classical Music

Fri Oct 8, 1999. Davis CA

Necati Çelik – Oud & Vocals

Halil Karaduman – Kanun

Turkish Classical & Sufi Music

Sun Sep 5, 1999. Davis CA