Old New Year Celebration - Eastern European Feast

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Peggy's Skylight
Wednesday 15 January 2020 | 8pm - 11pm
£5 Members | £7 Non-members

The Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar. The same day is celebrated as Thai Pongal in India as the sun ends its southward journey and starts moving northward.

From East to East:

From East To East invites you to a happy and rich journey through the musical heritage of Eastern European countries. This large 9 piece acoustic band plays a blend of dance tunes as well as slower melodic pieces from Balkan, Klezmer, Romani, Polish, Russian traditions with a number of original tracks. Their instrumentation includes clarinet, violin, darbuka, guitars and drums, with two outstanding lead vocalists Kasia Kazimierska and Michael Casey Kasprzak.

They will make your heart fill with joy or melancholy and, together with their own resident dancer and tambourinist Nicole Korycka, they will make your feet dance!

From East To East have previously appeared at many festivals in the UK, as well as internationally including the popular Balkan Traffic festival (Brussels 2018), and have performed live shows on Polish national TVP Polonia.

Christine Pinkard - clarinet
Kamil Kroplewski - violin
Grzegorz Dziewulski - guitar
Tomas Richards - bass guitar
Henry O'Loughlin - drums
Michał Chluski - darbuka
Kasia Kazimierska- vocal
Michael Casey Kasprzak-vocal
Nicole Korycka- tambourine and dance

MUHA band:

'MUHA are an intriguing example of the results that arise from meetings of musical minds across porous national borders.' Songlines

Nottingham's own MUHA offers a new tradition in contemporary Eastern European music, influenced by the multicultural society in the UK, the band is a brilliant live act. Entertaining with their musicianship through a sound stemming from eastern roots and engaging audiences through a variety of languages and catchy grooves. Combining the melodic beauty of Eastern European folklore, North Indian Kathak rhythms, Cuban beats and original lyrics they mesmerise with a musical feast rooted in the Slavonic tradition but cultured from the world.

Iryna Muha- vocals, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, berimbao
Dmitry Fedotov- guitar
Louise Clements- bass and kathak rhythms
Nikki McKenzie - percussion

Pay £10 for the annual membership of Midlands World Music Consortium and have a FREE entry to this event.

Supported by Kallaboration, MUHA, Peggy's Skylight, Arts Council England.