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Baksheesh Boys
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Bill Lanphier - Acoustic & Electric Bass / Brian Fox - Gajda, Tambura & Guitar /
Angela Rodel - Voice, Tambura & Guitar / Pat MacSwyney - Kavals, Tambura & Bouzouki /
Jerry Summers - Darabuka, Def & Tupan / Linda Kodaira - Violin
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BIOGRAPHY
The Baksheesh Boys got together in the Summer of 2001 at the East European Folklife Center's Balkan Music and Dance Camp held in Mendocino, California. Following an ad hoc set of dance tunes in the Kafana, the band conspired to get together again back in their home of Los Angeles. The opportunity came a few months later in the form of a benefit concert and dance for the humanitarian organization Search for Common Ground in Macedonia in October of that year. The Baksheesh Boys have gone on to perform at numerous concerts, dances and private events throughout California. Their first CD was released in May of 2003.
The Baksheesh Boys perform traditional songs and dances from the historic regions of Macedonia and Thrace located in the southeastern European Balkan region. Their repertoire comes primarily from the ethnic Slavs and Roma (Gypsies) living in present day Macedonia and Bulgaria as well as music from adjacent areas of Greece, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Turkey. The band performs on a number of traditional Balkan instruments such as the darabuka (goblet shaped hand drum), tambura (long necked lute) kaval (end-blown flute), gajda (bagpipe) as well as western instruments such as violin, guitar and bass. The majority of the songs are sung in the Macedonian, Bulgarian & Rom languages.
The Baksheesh Boys include singer Angela Rodel, a doctoral student at UCLA and past director of the UCLA Bulgarian Women's Choir - Superdevoiche; former Madonna, Rippingtons & Ice Capades bassist Bill Lanphier who also plays with Rumen Shopev, Trio Mopmu and the Toids ; Linda Kodaira on violin and Pat MacSwyney on tambura and kaval, both from the Irish-Klezmer-Finnish band, StinkEye; Jerry Summers, an instructor at CalArts and percussionist with the Toids on darabuka, voice & assorted percussion; Brian Fox, former bassist with Pseudopod on gajda, tambura, guitar & bass.
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