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BALKANALE! A BALKAN UNDERGROUND DANCE PARTY Tonight featuring REVMA plus ITAI AND OPHANIM
Wednesday 4/1
BALKANALE! RETURNS FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH with A BALKAN UNDERGROUND DANCE PARTY
Tonight featuring REVMA plus ITAI AND OPHANIM
$10 advance / $12 at the door
7:00 doors / 8:00 show
https://matoulamusic.com/artists/revma/
https://itaiandtheophanim.com/
A bacchanale is an orgiastic musical composition, often depicting a drunken revel or bacchanal. Add in some of the best Balkan music and you've got a Balkanale!
This month we're featuring these two fantastic bands!
REVMA passionately displays the living art of traditional Greek music (Dimotika), to listening and dancing audiences. Mesmerizing pentatonic and polyphonic Epirot mountain laments and celebrations, lyrical melodies and the springing sousta and ballos dances of the Aegean, Dodekanese, and Ionian islands, powerful odd-metered Macedonian and Thracian rhythms, and the delicate modal tones of urban Smyrnaika, are all shaped by a history drenched in struggle, war, migration, resilience, and philotimia, and charged with Greek life-embracing passion and wit.
ITAI AND THE OPHANIM
Itai is a singer, songwriter, pianist, accordionist, and prayerleader who seeks to bridge the song circle with the dance floor. They infuse words from the siddur (prayerbook) with the ones in their heart; prayers for unity among humans and Earth. "Arise," the debut album of this project, has a studio crew of eleven people and offers a colorful palette of instrumental arrangements and a wide dynamic range. You will hear influences of klezmer, funk, and folk and lyrics in Hebrew and English. Itai creates from a place informed by tradition while still facing outwards. In doing so, they hope to inspire others to look inwards and embrace their roots.
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LocationThe Lizard Lounge (View)
1667 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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