Budapest Cafe Orchestra
Friday 7th June 2024  7.30pm  £15

"the finest purveyors of Balkan music this side of a Lada scrap heap"
​www.budapestcafeorchestra.co.uk
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​'Thoroughly inventive Balkan brilliance!'
The BCO is a music-driven phenomenon, a specialist performance-entertainment outfit, certified to enthral audiences everywhere. The infectious energy of the BCO will sweep you off your feet and stay in your heart forever. You will journey from one emotional pole to another: from a desperately tragic evocative heart-rending ancient Jewish melody to a dance from Romania or Russia and all the fiery exuberance that goes with it.
The Budapest Cafe Orchestra share as many blood cells with the folk of Hungary as the Penguin Cafe Orchestra do with the web-footed fellows of Antarctica. Their Magic Potion is a closely guarded recipe of malt, hops, yeast and water, handed down in the secret tongue of Estuary English through generations of Professional Gypsies. With a sole mission: to entertain and enchant audiences, they are undaunted by even the most demanding and wildest village hall crowds, for example those inhabiting the darkest corners of the Highlands. Arisaig loves them!

Originally brought together by the Blas festival in 2016, to celebrate the work
of female bards, Sian comprises three of today’s most exquisitely gifted young
Gaelic singers – Ceitlin Lilidh, Eilidh Cormack and Ellen MacDonald –
accompanied by in-demand multi-instrumentalist (and fellow Gaelic speaker)
Innes White. With direct connections among the singers to Lewis, Skye and
North Uist, their arrangements match deep feeling for tradition with stunning,
boldly imaginative harmony work, which has seen them likened to The Staves
and even Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Their self-titled debut album,
produced by Donald Shaw, was released in 2020.
“At once both ancient and modern, and never less than remarkable.” – The National Buy Tickets

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