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If you like Gypsy Jazz and Irish River Dance style music performed by top class Jazz musicians check these boys out, we have seen them in Dartmouth before at our amazing music festival but tonight they were on fire playing to a full house in the Flavel Hall.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O02qmpJVAcI

Listening to this played on Uillean pipes is heartwrenching and hauntingly beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdsVNGxZ038

Thanks for those links Rich. Never heard of them, but I'll be looking out for more

Have seen them a couple of times in local halls very entertaining and great musicians. Well worth getting to see them if you can

K

I lived in Hungary in 1985 & 1986 and spent 20 months based in Budapest leading an Industrial Project at a number of sites across the country. Had the +8 with me and this was recorded in Miscellany and the local motoring press. Would often pass the Russian troops on manoeuvres, long columns of vehicles many broken down.
There were very few foreigners working in the country at the time and few restaurants, but all had gypsy bands. By the third month when I ate out with colleagues we would pay them not to play.

How I can relate to that ! I made regular business trips to Hungary during that era. Winters were worst, with a lot of pollution in Budapest at that time. Needing places to eat in the evening, I would trudge out in the snow, the restaurants had double-layered (mainly maroon) heavyweight curtains at the entrance to keep out the cold. The lack of tourists meant that the bands in most of the restaurants pounced on any foreigners who might just cough-up a few Forints. "Death by Gypsy violin" was a bad way to go. That was the era of exchange declarations on entering and leaving the country, and woe betide anyone who "lost" a few £ or $ as incentives. I loved the country though, mostly shuttling back and forth from Budapest to Vác and Győr, and a few summertime excursions to Lake Balaton. I was fortunate that my employer put me in nice hotels (either the Hilton or the Intercontinental), one of them was the first place I'd seen an all-glass atrium lift.

They were featured on Radio 3 this morning (0830 ish) with a couple of tracks from their new album

As ever one mans wine is another mans poison

Hi Keith, they posted their Scotlandia dates just now on FB.. Oh and one of these for good measure

It'll be Sept 20 at New Deer Public Hall for me .... just a few miles up the road ... seen them there before

K

K that's good to hear.
Did you know an ex colleague of mine from Old Deer I wonder called Bob Baxter, a real Mr Fixit for you guy, if ever I needed mechanical engineering or fabrication done Bob always knew someone.. Me being Electronics.

I'm afraid the only Baxter I know from Old Deer is an architect.

K