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LINX TO OUR OTHER ENDEAVORS
SUPERDEVOICHE - Offshoot of the UCLA Bulgarian Women's Choir, including Angela and lots and lots of other women who sing really, really good.....
THE TOIDS - Virtuosic "New" Balkan quintette, including Bill and Jerry, performing primarily newly-composed Balkan-influenced compositions
STINKEYE - PowerFolk quintette performing highly-caffeinated Irish, Klezmer, Finnish, Balkan & other northern & eastern European traditional music. Includes Linda on fiddle and Pat on cittern, tin whistle and other stuff.
PSEUDOPOD - Defined loosely as "that which often prevents Brian from bringing his inflatable goat carcass to our gigs", featuring Brian on bass.
MacSWYNEY MUSIC - Pat's shameless attempt to sell you his sordid commercial endeavors including CDs and his new book "The Complete Gobshite's Guide to BALKAN FOLK DANCE MUSIC". Also, check out THE MANY MUGS OF SATAN.
ZABAVA! - The love child of Gajda and String Monster, Bill Cope. Zabava are based in the S.F. Bay area playing hot Macedonian Izvorno as well as asst. Greek and Bulgarian trad as well. The band features a host of talent including Dan from Ziyia & Edessa, Julie from Kitka and Baksheesh Boy Brian Fox on Tambura. Bill Lanphier was a past member and Angela and Pat have been occasional guests.
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OTHER BALKAN-RELATED LINX
TRISKELION FOLK MUSIC - Pat's father's website - If he can't make it, he'll source it for you.
MACEDONIA DIRECT - Macedonian CDs, Books, Instruments, etc.
IZVOR MUSIC - Produces several comprehenive volumes of Macedonian Folk Songs + lots of "free" downloads of dance tunes, including repetoire from kaval master Angele Dimovski.
THE EAST EUROPEAN FOLKLIFE CENTER - Host the annual Balkan Music & Dance Workshops in Mendocino and the List Serve is a treasure trove of information for "All things Balkan".
WARREN CASEY DRUMS - Infamous maker of Macedonian and Bulgarian style Tupans, Tupan player in THE WICKED TINKERS, folkdancer, artist, all around nice guy & gadfly-about-town.....
FOLK WORKS - Independent Los Angeles-based newspaper published by Los Angeles-based folk musicians/enthusiasts Steve and Leda Shapiro here in sunny Los Angeles dedicated to promoting live folk music and dance in.......Los Angeles.
BEGINNING KAVAL - Bob Snider's heroic and completely selfless efforts to promote the Bulgarian Kaval, complete with embouchure tips and fingering charts.
MACEDONIAN / ALBANIAN KAVAL - Another selfless and highly informative series of articles focused primarily on the history of the Kaval in the western Balkans as well as more than you probably ever wanted to know about the making of Kavals and an in depth portrait of the Albanian Kaval-making Ferrati family.
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