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Interesting Events : NY Gypsy Festival presents 5th Anniversary Season Party #2
Saturday April 25th, 2009
 LE POISSON ROUGE TO HOST A NIGHT OF SWEATY GYPSY-MEETS-BRAZIL MUSIC WITH ROARING
BRASS BANDS & DJ SOUNDS
Hot
on the heels of the wild success of the NY Gypsy Festival kick-off party, where
700+ fans packed the club late into the night, comes the sequel featuring more
lively sounds form the East - and South.
Le Poisson Rouge will host once again
a night of superb musicianship and party atmosphere when Gypsy and Brazilian
sounds collide for what promises to be a rapturous evening.
Headlining the second edition is one of New York's hardest working bands -
the mighty Slavic Soul Party. The 11-piece band's fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding
American grooves, and ecstatic songs, both new and old, have attracted a wide
range of fans from East European to Mexican and Asian immigrant backgrounds
and even American jazz, soul and brass lovers.
Highlighting that brass element,
Brooklyn's very own Forro Brass Band (the latest creative output of Nation
Beat ringleader Scott Kettner) will play the lively stylings of northeast Brazil
with hints of New Orleans.
Genre-bending mixologist DJ Joro-Boro, who plays anything from balkan dancehall
to favela turbo funk, will be at hand for your dancing pleasure, while breathtaking
Brazilian dancer Reiny and the radiant colors of face painter Painteresse Elyzabeth
will provide eye candy for the night.
Photo © Cem Turer & Lotta Zachrisson
Gypsy-meets-Brazil!!
Slavic Soul Party - Balkan-Soul-Gypsy-Funk Big Band
Scott Kettner's Forro Brass Band - Infectiously live music from Northeast Brazil
+ DJ Joro-Boro - Carioca Balkaniada Mashup Bomba
Brazilian Dance by Reiny
Face Painting by Painteresse Elyzabeth
Friday, May 15, 2009
10:30pm - 4am
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St, NYC
$15 tickets at www.lprnyc.com
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