Le Grand Cirque du Balkan - 25 April (Netherlands)

Date: 25 April
Time: 14h
Location: Cultural Freezone, Landbouwbelang Maastricht, Biesenwal 3
6211AD, The Netherlands
Entry: Voluntary Gift (you decide what you pay!) =)

A festival with Gipsy theater, Balkan music, Ska, Russen Hits, Expo, Documentaries and really nice food!!

Lineup:

Tabor

Amariszi

Play it Heart

La Caravanee

The Grassmoawers

Perestroika Sound System

Hapu en Sòj

Kumpania Algazarra - 2 April (Évora, Portugal)

Date: 2 April
Time: 23:30h
Location: Espaço Celeiros
Entry: 4€ (with 1 beer)

Kumpania Algazarra

Their music hit the streets on a special day, a day almost like all the others. It was in 2004. Like some sort of an anti-routine crew, inspired by the muses of festivity, in an exciting dialogue between music and liveliness, they created a framework for dancing and blissfulness. Their seeds, planted in the streets, flourished, as they started to perform on several stages.

Their music is nomad, multilingual and universal.

They´re influenced by a kaleidoscopic sonority: Balkan furor, Arabic drifting, Latin warmth, Afro-Beat refinement, and explosions of Turbo folk and Ska.

Twisted Gypsy @ InSpiral (2 April) - Herbert Newbert , Native Horizon and DJ Kobayashi (UK)

Date: 2 April
Time: 20h
Location: InSpiral - 250 Camden High Street NW1 8QS
Entry: 3£

Native Horizon mixes flamenco, folk, African and Arabic influences into a melting pot of uplifting beats, breaks and delightfully catchy melodies. The four-piece live band is based around the beats, electronic trickery and live guitar of Herbert Newbert, tied together with the heart-thumping percussion section of Jon T and Sean P, and topped off rather nicely with the enchanting and powerful vocal talents and of Noa B.

DJ Kobayashi musical styles varies from Gypsy/Balkan/Swing/Rock&Roll music, to chill-out/future dub/dub-step and broken beats.
Today his main project is Gypsy Hill which is a collaboration between DJ Kobayashi and Herbert Newbert forming together an authentic Balkan/Gypsy/Swing/Medetirania music with a touch of electronic beats, scratching and uplifting bass lines. Their work includes remixes from different artist such as; Fanfare Ciocarlia, Besh o drom, Kocani Orkestar, Boom Pam and more… as well as their own original material.