The band Dobranotch was set up in 1998 in France where a company of friends musicians from St.Petersburg, Russia was driven by wanderlust and the love of fresh musical experiences. After some years of travels the band came back to St. Petersburg to get a new lineup and new sound.

Dobranotch performs Jewish, Gypsy and Balkan traditional music, drawing on deep knowledge of traditions, rich experience in travelling and interacting with traditional musicians from different countries. The band's repertoire also includes Russian songs of the golden age of brass bands. Throughout its existence Dobranotch has toured across more than twenty countries of the world and recorded six albums.

One can hear the band's music in TV series, feature films and documentaries. The band Dobranotch sounds equally convincing on philharmonic stages and in clubs and on open air festivals. It is not uncommon that the musicians of the band come down off the stage to play right among the audience, as their predecessors did at weddings a hundred years ago.

Barbara Martinez has been singing professionally since childhood in New York City. She grew up performing in New York City. Originally from Venezuela, she comes from a lineage of Argentinian tango singers, including her grandmother Morenita Rey and great-aunt Libertad Lamarque. For almost 20 years Bárbara has worked as a dancer and singer with several flamenco dance companies, as well as productions of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang as a child.
In 2010, Barbara performed to a sold out house at Carnegie Hall/Weill, singing an eclectic repertoire of flamenco, Latin and world music with a magnificent group of musicians. She has appeared in the documentary “Sobre Las Olas – A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.” by Carolina Loyola-Garcia and the photography exhibit entitled “100 Years of Flamenco in New York” at the NY Performing Arts Library.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra was started in Toronto by a Breton and Uke over Balkan music and Vietnamese food. Tired of music ‘scenes,’ they hit the streets, busking by day and crashing parties by night, creating and living folk music in the city. With their folk-everything-attitude and tendency to pop up anywhere and everywhere, it wasn’t long before they hooked up with other lemons who wanted in the bucket...

Now a fourteen-piece internationally-touring ensemble, the Lemon Bucket Orkestra has shared stages with the most renowned artists in their genre-- Shantel and the Bucovina Club Orkestar, Taraf de Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia - and has lit up major venues from New York to Berlin to Budapest and beyond. In their hometown of Toronto, they can be found bringing music to every corner of the urban space, from the streets to major festival stages, bars, clubs, weddings, concert halls, and community events. They are a founding member of Toronto’s urban folk collective, Fedora Upside-Down.

CNN, Fox News, CBC New and the New York Times all features LBO's spontaneous in-flight performance (over 260,000 youtube hits) on their broadcasts and websites. Late night show host Jimmy Kimmel has even polked fun at our guerilla folk antics, and Canadian Media mogul Moses Znaimer invited us to live in his coach house, tweeting us as "the best party band ever".

Oiginal Quartet by Javier Limon explores the roots of this music, their differences and commonalities. More than 1,000 years ago, the most important and influential cultures of the West; the Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish Sephardic and the culture of the gypsies of India gathered in a land called Andalusia. There they created one of the most important musical movements of our era, flamenco. However, Andalusia was not only the birthplace of flamenco but also of Pablo Picasso and the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the influences of flamenco and the culture of Andalusia are seen throughout their work.OQ is made up of 4 new stars of world music and representing these four cultures, Spanish guitarist, composer and multi-Grammy winner Javier Limon, Iraqi violinist and singer Layth Sidiq, Israeli recorder player and singer Tali Rubinstein and Indian vocalist Shilpa Anath. The repertoire includes old poems and songs from Iraq, Sephardi compositions and Indian traditional pieces, as well as modern compositions created specifically for this project.

With their unique blend of virtuosity and showmanship, the New York Gypsy All-stars perform everything from traditional world music to their own compositions and arrangements which highlight their diverse cultural backgrounds. Performing together in what can only be described as chamber music making of the highest order, the group has performed hundreds of concerts in presentations as varied as their genre-bending artistry. The New York Gypsy All-Stars appear regularly in North and South America, Asia, Australia and throughout Europe at the invitation of prestigious concert halls and festivals such as Daniel Barenboim’s new Boulez Saal in Berlin, Konzerthaus Dortmund, MecklenburgVorpommern Festival, Odeon Ankara, Balkan Trafik Festival Brussels, Music Meeting Nijmegen, Masala Weltbeat Festival Hannover, Sommer in Lesmona, and many more. The All-Stars also appear with symphony orchestras and made their symphonic debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, one of Europe’s leading orchestras. Since then, a significant part of their touring calendar is on the concert stage with symphony orchestras all around the world.
 

Called “…a brilliant outfit,…who grab southern Italian traditional music by the neck and recast it in a dramatic style" by Songlines (UK), Newpoli Newpoli is a unique group with a powerful sound and a 21st century take on their tradition that is beyond comparison.With exciting interpretations of traditional and originals that draw deeply from one of the world’s lesser known music traditions, Newpoli is Italy’s next inspiring interpreter of southern Italy’s taranta tradition.The group stirs up a mesmerizing sound that melds traditional Italian folk music, Greek and Turkish Grooves, Mediterranean and Spanish colors, and a contemporary sensibility they call “Mediterranean Pulse - Ritmi della Terra." The group is fronted by singers Carmen Marsico and Angela Rossi, a pair that PopMatters in 2016 called “…, visual and musical cynosures with their contrasting looks and twining vocal lines."In concert you’ll hear the tamburello, played by virtuoso Fabio Pirozzolo, pounding out the heartbeat of Newpoli’s music, the two female singers will start up a wild, frenetic dance and you'll have a very hard time sitting still! The tempo is high, and the drama and passion can be heard in every note!

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