Ack! Colors! Need help
Dark grey, deep blue, orange and brown. Hilfe!!!!!
March 28, 2011

Here's my new blog
Wordpress? No. Blogspot? Nope. Blogger? Nuh-uh. Frogger? Hmm. PacMan? No, Ms. PacMan is cooler anyway. Folks, it's just a home spun blog on my server that will never get spammed.
March 28, 2011

Ljuti Hora recording in the works
Ljuti Hora, a Balkan band I've been playing with regularly in Berlin for the past two years spent three days recording 18 tracks in February. The ensemble is made up of tapan/darabuka, accordion, gaida, clarinet/flutes, tambura/Cümbüş. Our friend Manu Miethe was the engineer.

I'm playing either Macedonian tambura, Turkish Cümbüş and maybe even sing background vocals on a couple of tracks. I can't remember. Ljuti Hora is a great dance band, playing the Tanzhaus once a month at Mehana Trakia Bulgarian restaurant in Berlin.

As a string player in Ljuti Hora it's tradition to make a recording with the band, take really funny photos for the album cover and then relocate to a different country.

We're hoping to get the CD mixed mastered covered shrinkwrapped spat upon and polished by Fall 2011.
March 15, 2011

Teaching at EEFC East & West Coast Camps
The Balkan Music & Dance Workshops hosted by the EEFC (Eastern European Folklife Center) take place every year and are a great place to explore the music and dancing of that region. I'm happy to be teaching at both the East and West coast camps this summer 2001.

June 25 - July 2, 2011
Mendocino Woodlands, California
(Macedonian Village Ensemble & Macedonian Tambura)

August 13 - 20, 2011
Iroquois Springs @ Rock Hill, New York
(Macedonian Tambura)

EEFC website
March 01, 2011

Dates in Germany with Brenna MacCrimmon
Nov 24-Dec 5

Brenna MacCrimmon - voice, tambura, ukelele
Sumru Ağıryürüyen - voice, mandolin
Hilde de Clercq - percussion, voice
Jess Kotansky - violin, ud
Adam Good - Turkish Ud, Tambura
November 01, 2010

Dates in Turkey with Brenna MacCrimmon
November 7-15

Brenna MacCrimmon - voice, tambura, ukelele
Sumru Ağıryürüyen - voice, mandolin
Hilde de Clercq - percussion, voice
Adam Good - Turkish Ud, Tambura
November 01, 2010