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2008 Golden Fest  -tentative schedule

FRIDAY (multiple bands, one venue)

SATURDAY 5:30 pm- 4am (three venues, over 50 groups!)

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FRIDAY 2008 at Good Shepherd School

7:30 pm	Dance workshop with Michael Ginsburg with live music 7:30 - Zlatne Uste, 8:15 - Nikolay Kolev 8:45 - Zurli Drštvo
9:00 pm	The Party continues with live music by: 9 pm - Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band 10 pm - Lefteris Bournias and Kavala Brass Band 11:30 - Nikolay Kolev 12 am - Zurli Društvo 12:15 am - John Parrish playing Norwegian on jaw harp and harmonica

Lefteris Bournias and Kavala Brass Band play Greek brass music from the regions of Florina and beyond. They are Lefteris Bournias (clarinet), Michael Ginsburg (trumpet), Catherine Foster (saxophone), Morgan Clark (accordion), Belle Birchfield (baritone horn), Jordan Scannella (bass guitar), Matt Moran, Jerry Kisslinger and Seido Salifoski (percussion).

Nikolay Kolev will play Bulgarian traditional music for dancing on the gadulka (bowed instrument with sympathetic resonating strings). www.gadular.com

Zurli Drštvo play Macedonian zurlas (a primitive oboe-like instrument) and are Drew and Laine Harris on zurlas and Jerry Kisslinger on tupan (drum).

Zlatne Uste (Golden Lips) plays Romany (Gypsy), Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian brass band music and is Belle Birchfield (baritone horn), Morgan Clark (baritone horn), Marian Eines (alto sax, vocals), Sarah Ferholt (trumpet), Catherine Foster (trumpet, alto sax, clarinet, vocals), Michael Ginsburg (trumpet), Don Godwin (baritone horn), JR Hankins (trumpet), Tamberlaine Harris (trumpet), Emerson Hawley (tuba), Dan Kollar, Jerry Kisslinger, Matt Moran, and Seido Salifoski (percussion), Matthew Smith (baritone horn), Gary Zema (baritone horn), and Melinda Hunt (guest vocalist).  www.zlatneuste.org

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SATURDAY 2008 5:30 pm- 4 am at Good Shepherd School

Here is the tentative schedule. Subject to change—even up to the very last minute!

Auditorium - a dance and listening space
Golden Room - an intimate, primarily acoustic space
Kafana - tables and chairs and nice things to taste with a smaller dance floor

Last updated: 1/19/08 3pm

Venue	Time slot	Group Name	Type of music	Group description	Gig contact
Auditorium	06:00	Zlatne Uste	Balkan Brass Band
Auditorium	06:20	Moldavian-Jewish Tantshoyz Kompanye	Moldavian-Jewish dance music	Zev Feldman (dance leader), Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Raul Rothblatt (bass), Christina Crowder (accordion), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl)	klezbanjo@yahoo.com
Auditorium	06:50	Bez Granica	Balkan Brass	Laine Harris, Drew Harris, John Bartholomew, Becky Ashenden, Chuck Corman, Ben Thomas, Gawain Thomas, Helen Marx
Auditorium	07:20	Izvornotes	Macedonian izvorno (village music)	Susan Anderson (gajda), Jeff Fine (kaval), Marjorie Selden & Kristina Vaskys (tambura), Jerry Kisslinger (tupan)	andesusan@comcast.net
Auditorium	07:50	Skordalia	Music of the Greek islands and Asia Minor	Dean Lampros (sandouri), Joe Teja (oud), Mike Davis (percussion), Ken Hiatt (accordion), Elizabeth Kereakoglow (violin)	zestygreekmusic.com
Auditorium	08:20	Lyuti Chushki	Bulgarian Bitov	Tzvety Weiner (vocals), Valeri Georgiev (kaval), Bruce Sagan (gadulka), Len Newman (tambura), Stoyan Kostov (tambura), Varol Saatcioglu (gaida), Larry Weiner (tupan)	www.lyutichushki.com
Auditorium	08:50	Veveritse	Balkan brass	The squirrels	jr_hankins@hotmail.com
Auditorium	09:20	Avram Pengas & the Noga Group	Mixed world music		NogaMusic@yahoo.com
Auditorium	09:50	Gogofski Trio	Macedonian	Dave Golber (clarinet), Melinda Fields (accordion), Henry Goldberg (tupan), with Corinna Snyder (vocals)	dgolber@aol.com 617/661-3670
Auditorium	10:20	Merita Halili & Raif Hyseni Band	Albanian urban folk music	The "Queen of Albanian Folk Songs"	rhyseni@aol.com
Auditorium	11:00	Zlatne Uste	Balkan Brass		www.zlatneuste.org
Auditorium	11:50	Romashka	Russian/ Romanian Gypsy	Inna Zhurmash (vox dowry), Jeff Perlmaniac (solar wind, tenor charger), Ben Packs (wonderhorn), Jake Shul-on-Shul (fidyidl), Ljova Zhurbin (hexagnola (really!)), Joey Smartrock (American balalaika), Rhone Q'aaswell (universal brute appeal), Timoley Quigstein (pots and poles)	www.romashka.net/gypsy
Auditorium	12:20	Slavic Soul Party!	Brass Band BalkanSoul GypsyFunk	Matt Moran (bubanj), Ben Holmes/John Carlson (truba), Oscar Noriega (sax), Peter Stan (accordion), Brian Drye/Jacob Garchik (tenor/baritone truba), Ron Caswell (tuba), guest vocalist Eva Salina Primack	www.slavicsoulparty.com
Auditorium	12:50	Rakiya	Balkan Rom	Dean Brown (drums, dumbek), Colin Ferguson (keyboard, accordion, dumbek), Dave Golber (clarinet), Heather Lee (vocals), Alan Mattes (sax), Tim McNerney (bass), Tev Stevig (guitar, chumbush), Patrick Yacono (clarinet, vocals, keyboard)	www.rakiya.com
Auditorium	01:20	Družina	Bulgarian dance music	Gordana Strouch (vocals), Melinda Fields (accordion), Helen Marx (tupan), Rumiana Kovacheva (tamboura), Joe Blumenthal (bass)	myspace.com/druzinadancemusic
Auditorium	01:50	West Philadelphia Orchestra	Music from Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, and elsewhere	Elliot Levin (soprano sax), Kimbal Brown, Patrick Hughes, Dawn Webster, Adam Herschberger (trumpets), Janos Perge, Katt Hernandez, Jacob Mitas (violins), Brendan Cooney, Larry Toft (trombones), Steve duffy (tuba), Gregg Mervine & Jack Ohly (percussion)	myspace.com/ westphiladelphiaorchestra
Auditorium	02:20	Banda Balkanica	Traditional and original music	Vermont based
Auditorium	02:50	What Cheer? Brigade	A rowdy mix of Bollywood, Balkans, New Orleans, Samba, and Hip Hop	Paul McCarthy, Maya Nayak, George Langford, Will Schaff and Marian Thorpe (percussion), Dan Schleifer, Steve Sharp, and Greg Burbank (tuba), Annelise Grimm (baritone horn), Chris Erway, Andy DeAngelis and Susan Sakash (trombone), Cordey Lopez, Nick Horton, and Larry Mauk (trumpet), Michael Jeffries (baritone sax), Katie Keehan (alto sax)	www.whatcheerbrigade.com
Venue	Time slot	Group Name	Type of music	Group description	Gig contact
Golden Room	06:00	New York Spelmanslag	Scandinavian	Traditional couple dances: waltz, schottische, hambo and polskas	www.ScandiaNY.org
Golden Room	06:25	Ta Aidhonia	Greek a cappella women's songs	Gladys Comeau, Ellen Knopf, Ramona Kohrs, Joan Marinakis, Laura Pannaman. Directed by Carol Freeman	tsipra@earthlink.net
Golden Room	06:50	The Rosen Sisters	Fiddle	Duets of folk music from around the world
Golden Room	07:15	John Parrish	Potpourri	Maybe a Norwegian tune or a Hungarian shepherd’s dance
Golden Room	07:40	NA Folk	Hungarian village music	Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Aron Szekely (kontra), Raul Rothblatt (bass), Kata Harsaczki (vocals)	http://www.hungarianfolkdance.net
Golden Room	08:05	Shirley Johnson & Melinda Hunt	Balkan Songs	Melinda Hunt (vocals) and Shirley Johnson (accordion and vocals)	Hunt_Smith @compuserve.com, ShirleyJ@vjeverica.com or 512-680-0422