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Balkan Shmalkan
- World
- Mixed Ensemble
Bringing the brazen sounds of Eastern Europe to a grassy hill in East Vancouver. Balkan Shmalkan will be playing some heart wrenching tunes in odd time signatures, foreign languages, and crooked scales. Bring a blanket and a snack and enjoy the vibrant sounds of our traditional wedding and funeral music.
Ashton Sweet – Trumpet, Vocals
Mat LeBlond – Trumpet
Felix Taylor – Trumpet
Jen Charters – Alto Sax, Vocals
David Brown – Clarinet
Juliet Andrien – Tenorhorn
Marco Restagno – Tenorhorn
Erik Engholm – Tenorhorn
Andromeda Sweet – Tuba
Brian Phillips – Davul
Chris Blaber – Snare
Nevestinsko Oro – Traditional Bride’s dance
Obrsim Perela – Šaban Bajramović
Rumba De la Iasi – Fanfare Ciocărlia
La Llorona – Traditional
Otpisani – Milivoje Marković
Čaje Šukarije – Esma Redžepova
Bahamut – Hazmat Modine
Bottle o’ Shmo – Sky Lambourne
Bella Ciao – Traditional
Balkan Shmalkan is East Vancouver’s sweet dance party orchestra; think global music with local attitude. Their funky brass dance beats are rooted in the aural traditions of the Roma and Klezmorim of Eastern Europe and blended with a mixture of pop and jazz. Members of the group sing in 5 languages including Serbian, Romani, and Italian. The group contains six to twelve musicians playing reed, brass and percussion instruments of both eastern and western origin.
Balkan Shmalkan is the brainchild of a group of musicians with a long history of collaboration in traditional South Serbian Trubaći music. This project is a way of blending that music with other vibrant traditions and bringing it to the general population of BC.
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