The Smyrna Time Machine at Ashkenz this Tuesday
Alan Davidson
Your very own Smyrna Time Machine is playing at Ashkenaz this
Tuesday, October 11th. We will begin playing around 10:00pm.
Our friends Turlu will open the evening's music at 8:30.
Jana Niernberger will teach a variety of Greek dances, beginning
at 7:30.
Vandal Adonis
Tue Oct 11: Balkan Folk Dancing - $10
7:30 pm – Balkan dance lessons with Jana Niernberger
8:30 pm – Turlu
10:00
– The Smyrna Time
Machine
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TURLU plays folk dance music from the Southern Balkans. Turlu means mixture or mélange in Turkish and the term is also found in both Greek and Turkish cuisine as a baked vegetable dish. For us, the name symbolizes the vibrant cross-cultural aspects of this region.
Turlu is:
Nuri Bal -
percussion
Leslie Bonnett – violin, vocals
Lily Storm – vocals
Dan Ziagos – accordion
Plus special guest Michael
Matthews, from Anoush, on clarinet
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The SMYRNA TIME MACHINE will
take you on a tour, for the most part in Greek, of the coast and islands of Asia
Minor and beyond at the turn of the last century.
The city of Smyrna, present
day Izmir in Turkey, was a thriving cosmopolitan port where Greeks, Turks, Jews,
Armenians, Roma, Europeans, and more, lived, worked and played music together in
large ensembles, creating a vibrant musical mixture of east and west that
continues to enrich the music of today, and gave birth to rebetika, sometimes
called the Greek blues.
Whether you wish to dance or
sit and revel in the hypnotic beauty of the music, The Smyrna Time Machine will
accommodate you with sensuous tsiftitelia, sizzling karsilamades, stately
tsamika, soulful zebekika, and more.
The Smyrna Time Machine
is:
Rachel Valfer - vocals
Dennis Demakos - vocals, laouto,
baglamas
Matt Wright - oud
Daniel Eshoo - kanun
Alan Davidson -
violin
Paul Wernick - bouzouki, tsouras, baglamas
Normand Bujold -
guitar
Juliet Lee - percussion