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- Subject: Zlatne Uste 8th Golden Festival, January 15-16, 1993
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- From: eshawley%BKLYN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Emerson S. Hawley)
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:11:44 GMT
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- Zlatne Uste Golden Festival #8
- January 15 & 16, 1993
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- New Larger Location:
- Context Studios, 3rd floor
- 28 Ave. A (between E. 2nd & E. 3rd St.)
- New York, New York
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- Zlatne Uste, this funny Balkan brass band from New York, owes
- a debt to a wonderful group of local and distant musician friends
- who have been willing to play music for your dancing and
- listening pleasure at our Golden Festivals over the years. Our
- festival has become an occasion at which they help us celebrate
- music and dance and the love of good brew and a cornucopia of
- ethnic comestibles. We will open the doors early and close them
- only after the last musician has collapsed into a heap. For the
- duration, we will provide Brooklyn Lager and Lord Chesterfield
- Ale to quaff and Arabic and Balkan specialty foods to munch on.
- The rest will be up to you.
-
- We have a new space this year, with two rooms, 4250 square
- feet of wooden dance floor (almost 1 1/2 times as large as last
- year's space). The main hall will be for amplified music and
- dancing, and the smaller room will be transformed into a Balkan
- kafana, loosely translated a "coffee-house", for acoustic music,
- dancing, food, drink, and general carousing. The sets in the
- main hall will be scheduled tightly, whereas they will be
- informal (we hope for chaotic symbiosis) in the kafana. Balkan
- dance music will be played in both venues (Greek, Hungarian,
- Serbian, Electric Macedonian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Rhodope
- singing dances, whatever) though, in addition, there is likely to
- be some Scandinavian and Cajun in the kafana. Cathie Springer
- will transform this space into a Balkan treasure trove of woven
- delights. This is in a revitalized neighborhood with on and off
- street parking (call for details). Public transportation: F
- train to 2nd Ave. or Lexington Ave. line to Astor Place.
-
- THE SCHEDULE:
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- Folk Dance Fridays (1/15/93), $7
- 7PM to 9PM. Teaching: intro. then advanced.
- 9PM to Midnight & later. Golden Festival Preview: Zlatne Uste
- and friends play.
-
- Saturday (1/16/93), $14
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- In the Kafana
- 2:30 PM. Ritual tapping of the keg: Brooklyn Lager with zurlas.
- 2:30 to 4. Decorate, jam, rehearse, test the beer, get
- organized.
- 4 to 6. Relaxed playing and jams. Warm up dancing, catch up on
- gossip.
- 6 to 7:30. Table music. Bring your own dinner (from numerous
- local eateries).
- 7:30 and on. The music continues. A Balkan & Middle Eastern
- spread magically appears.
-
- In the Main Hall
- 7PM to 1AM. Every group will be allocated time in this block.
- The schedule will be posted. Was it really 16 groups that
- appeared last year?
- 1AM 'til the end. Second sets, late comers, experimentations.
- Legends have been born in this segment.
-
- INFORMATION/MAILING LIST:
- Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band: Michael Ginsburg, 2-12 Seaman Av
- #3B, NY, NY 10034 (212)942-3768, or Emerson Hawley (718)
- 859-4759, email <Eshawley%Bklyn.Bitnet@Cunyvm.Cuny.Edu>.
- Musicians contact: Drew Harris, 288 5th Av #4F, Brooklyn, NY
- 11215 (718)768-0229, FAX: (718)768-0303, email <Dharris@Rnd.
- Stern.Nyu.Edu>.
- Accommodations: Hope Geteles (212)831-8046 and Laura Pannaman
- (718)645-9142.
- WNYC-FM, 93.9MHz: Catch Zlatne Uste LIVE on "Around New York",
- with John Schaefer, from 4-5PM on Monday, January 11, 1993,
- including latest festival updates.
-