We are so exited to announce Kafana Balkan is turning 10! Opa!
Come and celebrate with us the 10 Year Anniversary and CD release of Inspector Gadje featuring Ismail Lumanovski recorded Live at Kafana Balkan in San Francisco!
See footage here from February 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch 1 where a line formed around the block, incited an all-night sweat soaked dance party, and ecstatic memories still resonating with those lucky enough to have been there.
Not only was Kafana Balkan the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco, it's also the Bay AreaÂ’s biggest Balkan music party masterminded by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi?. ÂŽeljko hails from the Balkans, Serbia by way of Frankfurt and now resides in San Francisco. We here in San Francisco have the great benefit of enjoying his discriminating taste and seemingly endless collection of Balkan music. DJ ÂŽeljko clearly loves what he does and he is a crowd pleaser, concocting a genuine brew of highly danceable Balkan Brass. ÂŽeljko lovingly promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. KB event has won "The Best of" both Bay Guardian and SF Weekly weekly newspapers.
This Kafana Balkan features:
Inspector Gadje Balkan Brass joined by Macedonian-Roma clarinet maestro Ismail Lumanovski, Elizabeth Strong & Little Egypt( Turkish-Romani-Bellydance ) and Dj ÂŽeljko
Ismail Lumanovski performs internationally and leads the New York Gypsy Allstars, is perhaps the first Roma clarinet player to graduate from the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His sui generis mastery of Western classical and Eastern folk music have elevated both musics to new heights, and indeed to new octaves in the clarinet.
Inspector Gadje brings a big sound to the beautiful and bumpin' brass band music of the Balkans. With 14 musicians sharing the stage, Inspector Gadje is an acoustic dance machine that makes the party move! A "... RIP ROARING MAD BALKAN BRASS BEDLAM" (KPFA'S Stephen Kent, “Music of the World”) and an "instant party atmosphere” (The SF Chronicle).
DJ ÂŽeljko
About the presenters: Kafana Balkan was the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco and is the only one of its kind organized by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi? in the Bay Area. ÂŽeljko hails from Serbia by way of Frankfurt, and, lucky for us, he now calls San Francisco home. DJ ÂŽeljko has discriminating taste, a seemingly endless collection of great Balkan albums, and love and joy for his music, a crowd-pleasing, danceable Balkan brass sound. ÂŽeljko promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. Since February 2015, heÂ’s joined by Marco Peris Coppola, Creative Co Strategist and Co Booker, who is helping Kafana Balkan grow.
Elizabeth Strong
Elizabeth Strong is a life long dancer, raised in the folk communities of California, where she was exposed to music and dance of the Balkans and Middle East from a young age. In addition to over a decade of study in the Bay Area, She has traveled and studied dance ethnology in Turkey and Egypt, the first student of Reyhan Tuzsuz in Istanbul, and student of Sahra Saeeda in Egyptian dance and culture.
Little Egypt - A San Francisco based dance theater company founded by Jill Parker that specializes in inventing and interpreting sensuous and intoxicating womens dances from Egypt and Morocco to the Balkans.
There will be Rakija -delectible Serbian plum brandy. Warning: :drink at your own risk:!
Gino from Spirollsf will be serving Delicious Burek (Balkan Filo Dough Pastries ) ...mmmmmmm Opa!
More on Ismail Lumanovski - https://www.ismaillumanovski.com
More on Inspector Gadje - https://www.inspectorgadje.com
More on Kafana Balkan -www.facebook.com/kafana.balkan
More on Elizabeth Strong - www,strongdancer.com
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Come and celebrate with us the 10 Year Anniversary and CD release of Inspector Gadje featuring Ismail Lumanovski recorded Live at Kafana Balkan in San Francisco!
See footage here from February 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch 1 where a line formed around the block, incited an all-night sweat soaked dance party, and ecstatic memories still resonating with those lucky enough to have been there.
Not only was Kafana Balkan the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco, it's also the Bay AreaÂ’s biggest Balkan music party masterminded by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi?. ÂŽeljko hails from the Balkans, Serbia by way of Frankfurt and now resides in San Francisco. We here in San Francisco have the great benefit of enjoying his discriminating taste and seemingly endless collection of Balkan music. DJ ÂŽeljko clearly loves what he does and he is a crowd pleaser, concocting a genuine brew of highly danceable Balkan Brass. ÂŽeljko lovingly promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. KB event has won "The Best of" both Bay Guardian and SF Weekly weekly newspapers.
This Kafana Balkan features:
Inspector Gadje Balkan Brass joined by Macedonian-Roma clarinet maestro Ismail Lumanovski, Elizabeth Strong & Little Egypt( Turkish-Romani-Bellydance ) and Dj ÂŽeljko
Ismail Lumanovski performs internationally and leads the New York Gypsy Allstars, is perhaps the first Roma clarinet player to graduate from the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His sui generis mastery of Western classical and Eastern folk music have elevated both musics to new heights, and indeed to new octaves in the clarinet.
Inspector Gadje brings a big sound to the beautiful and bumpin' brass band music of the Balkans. With 14 musicians sharing the stage, Inspector Gadje is an acoustic dance machine that makes the party move! A "... RIP ROARING MAD BALKAN BRASS BEDLAM" (KPFA'S Stephen Kent, “Music of the World”) and an "instant party atmosphere” (The SF Chronicle).
DJ ÂŽeljko
About the presenters: Kafana Balkan was the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco and is the only one of its kind organized by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi? in the Bay Area. ÂŽeljko hails from Serbia by way of Frankfurt, and, lucky for us, he now calls San Francisco home. DJ ÂŽeljko has discriminating taste, a seemingly endless collection of great Balkan albums, and love and joy for his music, a crowd-pleasing, danceable Balkan brass sound. ÂŽeljko promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. Since February 2015, heÂ’s joined by Marco Peris Coppola, Creative Co Strategist and Co Booker, who is helping Kafana Balkan grow.
Elizabeth Strong
Elizabeth Strong is a life long dancer, raised in the folk communities of California, where she was exposed to music and dance of the Balkans and Middle East from a young age. In addition to over a decade of study in the Bay Area, She has traveled and studied dance ethnology in Turkey and Egypt, the first student of Reyhan Tuzsuz in Istanbul, and student of Sahra Saeeda in Egyptian dance and culture.
Little Egypt - A San Francisco based dance theater company founded by Jill Parker that specializes in inventing and interpreting sensuous and intoxicating womens dances from Egypt and Morocco to the Balkans.
There will be Rakija -delectible Serbian plum brandy. Warning: :drink at your own risk:!
Gino from Spirollsf will be serving Delicious Burek (Balkan Filo Dough Pastries ) ...mmmmmmm Opa!
More on Ismail Lumanovski - https://www.ismaillumanovski.com
More on Inspector Gadje - https://www.inspectorgadje.com
More on Kafana Balkan -www.facebook.com/kafana.balkan
More on Elizabeth Strong - www,strongdancer.com
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We are so exited to announce Kafana Balkan is turning 10! Opa!
Come and celebrate with us the 10 Year Anniversary and CD release of Inspector Gadje featuring Ismail Lumanovski recorded Live at Kafana Balkan in San Francisco!
See footage here from February 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch 1 where a line formed around the block, incited an all-night sweat soaked dance party, and ecstatic memories still resonating with those lucky enough to have been there.
Not only was Kafana Balkan the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco, it's also the Bay AreaÂ’s biggest Balkan music party masterminded by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi?. ÂŽeljko hails from the Balkans, Serbia by way of Frankfurt and now resides in San Francisco. We here in San Francisco have the great benefit of enjoying his discriminating taste and seemingly endless collection of Balkan music. DJ ÂŽeljko clearly loves what he does and he is a crowd pleaser, concocting a genuine brew of highly danceable Balkan Brass. ÂŽeljko lovingly promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. KB event has won "The Best of" both Bay Guardian and SF Weekly weekly newspapers.
This Kafana Balkan features:
Inspector Gadje Balkan Brass joined by Macedonian-Roma clarinet maestro Ismail Lumanovski, Elizabeth Strong & Little Egypt( Turkish-Romani-Bellydance ) and Dj ÂŽeljko
Ismail Lumanovski performs internationally and leads the New York Gypsy Allstars, is perhaps the first Roma clarinet player to graduate from the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His sui generis mastery of Western classical and Eastern folk music have elevated both musics to new heights, and indeed to new octaves in the clarinet.
Inspector Gadje brings a big sound to the beautiful and bumpin' brass band music of the Balkans. With 14 musicians sharing the stage, Inspector Gadje is an acoustic dance machine that makes the party move! A "... RIP ROARING MAD BALKAN BRASS BEDLAM" (KPFA'S Stephen Kent, “Music of the World”) and an "instant party atmosphere” (The SF Chronicle).
DJ ÂŽeljko
About the presenters: Kafana Balkan was the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco and is the only one of its kind organized by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi? in the Bay Area. ÂŽeljko hails from Serbia by way of Frankfurt, and, lucky for us, he now calls San Francisco home. DJ ÂŽeljko has discriminating taste, a seemingly endless collection of great Balkan albums, and love and joy for his music, a crowd-pleasing, danceable Balkan brass sound. ÂŽeljko promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. Since February 2015, heÂ’s joined by Marco Peris Coppola, Creative Co Strategist and Co Booker, who is helping Kafana Balkan grow.
Elizabeth Strong
Elizabeth Strong is a life long dancer, raised in the folk communities of California, where she was exposed to music and dance of the Balkans and Middle East from a young age. In addition to over a decade of study in the Bay Area, She has traveled and studied dance ethnology in Turkey and Egypt, the first student of Reyhan Tuzsuz in Istanbul, and student of Sahra Saeeda in Egyptian dance and culture.
Little Egypt - A San Francisco based dance theater company founded by Jill Parker that specializes in inventing and interpreting sensuous and intoxicating womens dances from Egypt and Morocco to the Balkans.
There will be Rakija -delectible Serbian plum brandy. Warning: :drink at your own risk:!
Gino from Spirollsf will be serving Delicious Burek (Balkan Filo Dough Pastries ) ...mmmmmmm Opa!
More on Ismail Lumanovski - https://www.ismaillumanovski.com
More on Inspector Gadje - https://www.inspectorgadje.com
More on Kafana Balkan -www.facebook.com/kafana.balkan
More on Elizabeth Strong - www,strongdancer.com
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Come and celebrate with us the 10 Year Anniversary and CD release of Inspector Gadje featuring Ismail Lumanovski recorded Live at Kafana Balkan in San Francisco!
See footage here from February 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch 1 where a line formed around the block, incited an all-night sweat soaked dance party, and ecstatic memories still resonating with those lucky enough to have been there.
Not only was Kafana Balkan the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco, it's also the Bay AreaÂ’s biggest Balkan music party masterminded by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi?. ÂŽeljko hails from the Balkans, Serbia by way of Frankfurt and now resides in San Francisco. We here in San Francisco have the great benefit of enjoying his discriminating taste and seemingly endless collection of Balkan music. DJ ÂŽeljko clearly loves what he does and he is a crowd pleaser, concocting a genuine brew of highly danceable Balkan Brass. ÂŽeljko lovingly promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. KB event has won "The Best of" both Bay Guardian and SF Weekly weekly newspapers.
This Kafana Balkan features:
Inspector Gadje Balkan Brass joined by Macedonian-Roma clarinet maestro Ismail Lumanovski, Elizabeth Strong & Little Egypt( Turkish-Romani-Bellydance ) and Dj ÂŽeljko
Ismail Lumanovski performs internationally and leads the New York Gypsy Allstars, is perhaps the first Roma clarinet player to graduate from the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His sui generis mastery of Western classical and Eastern folk music have elevated both musics to new heights, and indeed to new octaves in the clarinet.
Inspector Gadje brings a big sound to the beautiful and bumpin' brass band music of the Balkans. With 14 musicians sharing the stage, Inspector Gadje is an acoustic dance machine that makes the party move! A "... RIP ROARING MAD BALKAN BRASS BEDLAM" (KPFA'S Stephen Kent, “Music of the World”) and an "instant party atmosphere” (The SF Chronicle).
DJ ÂŽeljko
About the presenters: Kafana Balkan was the first ongoing Balkan dance party in San Francisco and is the only one of its kind organized by DJ ÂŽeljko Petkovi? in the Bay Area. ÂŽeljko hails from Serbia by way of Frankfurt, and, lucky for us, he now calls San Francisco home. DJ ÂŽeljko has discriminating taste, a seemingly endless collection of great Balkan albums, and love and joy for his music, a crowd-pleasing, danceable Balkan brass sound. ÂŽeljko promotes Balkan music and culture by producing Kafana Balkan roughly four times a year. Since February 2015, heÂ’s joined by Marco Peris Coppola, Creative Co Strategist and Co Booker, who is helping Kafana Balkan grow.
Elizabeth Strong
Elizabeth Strong is a life long dancer, raised in the folk communities of California, where she was exposed to music and dance of the Balkans and Middle East from a young age. In addition to over a decade of study in the Bay Area, She has traveled and studied dance ethnology in Turkey and Egypt, the first student of Reyhan Tuzsuz in Istanbul, and student of Sahra Saeeda in Egyptian dance and culture.
Little Egypt - A San Francisco based dance theater company founded by Jill Parker that specializes in inventing and interpreting sensuous and intoxicating womens dances from Egypt and Morocco to the Balkans.
There will be Rakija -delectible Serbian plum brandy. Warning: :drink at your own risk:!
Gino from Spirollsf will be serving Delicious Burek (Balkan Filo Dough Pastries ) ...mmmmmmm Opa!
More on Ismail Lumanovski - https://www.ismaillumanovski.com
More on Inspector Gadje - https://www.inspectorgadje.com
More on Kafana Balkan -www.facebook.com/kafana.balkan
More on Elizabeth Strong - www,strongdancer.com
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