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Gypsy Jazz & Balkan Beats in Bury St Edmunds

Led by celebrated jazz violin Christian Garrick, The Budapest Café Orchestra will take you on a musical journey across Eastern Europe, and just like any good expedition, you can expect surprises, diversions and adventures along the way.

This hugely entertaining show evokes vivid images of fiddle maestros, Hungarian café life and gypsy campfires as the band whirl their way through traditional folk and gypsy flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia, with immense skill and profound musicianship.

This aural alchemy comes from a small but impeccably formed orchestra of just four musicians, playing violin, guitar, accordion, double bass, saz and balalaika. The set list features mournful Klezmer melodies, raucous Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czadas and beautiful ballads, including the theme to Schindler’s List.

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Accordionist Eddie Hession has accompanied Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Chris Rea.  Christian Garrick has played with the likes of Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Nigel Kennedy and Caro Emerald. Adrian Zolotuhin is a master of the strummed strings of domra, balalaika, guitar and saz.  Veteran bass-man Kelly Cantlon found fame in the late 1960s with northern soul sensations Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.

The Budapest Café Orchestra will be at The Apex on Thursday 3 February at 7.30pm, see theapex.co.uk or ring 01284 758 000 for more information or to book.

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