Ederlezi Balkan Brass Festival 2012

On May 4-5, Vancouver's Russian Hall played host to the "Ederlezi" Balkan-Roma Brass Band Festival. The festival featured special guest trumpeter Demiran Cerimovic as well as:

• Orkestar Slivovica (Vancouver)
• Orkestar Zirkonium (Seattle)
• The Bolting Brassicas (Lasqueti Island)
• Bucan Bucan (Victoria)

Orkestar Slivovica

Wandering the streets of Vancouver with battered and ancient instruments, appearing and disappearing into the night, and dressed in the highest fashions of your great-grandparent’s youth, with a bottle in hand of that delicate concoction which is half of the band’s name, everything they cross paths with becomes a Balkan wedding dance party, with tunes from Serbia, Macedonia, and other mysterious and distant lands.


Orkestar Zirkonium

Orkestar Zirkonium is a mobile, thirteen-member brass-and-drum ensemble that borrows from a variety of musical traditions, composes original music, and kicks out celebratory spectacle in a variety of circumstances. They are based in Seattle, Washington.

The Bolting Brassicas

The Bolting Brassicas Marching Band are a street-side ensemble that play Balkan Gypsy and Klezmer Funk tunes which are loud, happy and danceable. They are based in Lasqueti Island.



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