Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
Subject: Zlatne Uste 8th Golden Festival, January 15-16, 1993
From: eshawley%BKLYN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Emerson S. Hawley)
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:11:44 GMT


 
Zlatne Uste Golden Festival #8
January 15 & 16, 1993
 
New Larger Location:
Context Studios, 3rd floor
28 Ave. A (between  E. 2nd & E. 3rd St.)
New York, New York
 
    Zlatne Uste, this funny Balkan brass band from New York, owes
a debt to a wonderful group of local and distant musician friends
who have been willing to play music for your dancing and
listening pleasure at our Golden Festivals over the years.  Our
festival has become an occasion at which they help us celebrate
music and dance and the love of good brew and a cornucopia of
ethnic comestibles.  We will open the doors early and close them
only after the last musician has collapsed into a heap.  For the
duration, we will provide Brooklyn Lager and Lord Chesterfield
Ale to quaff and Arabic and Balkan specialty foods to munch on.
The rest will be up to you.
 
    We have a new space this year, with two rooms, 4250 square
feet of wooden dance floor  (almost 1 1/2 times as large as last
year's space).  The main hall will be for amplified music and
dancing, and the smaller room will be transformed into a Balkan
kafana, loosely translated a "coffee-house", for acoustic music,
dancing, food, drink, and general carousing.  The sets in the
main hall will be scheduled tightly, whereas they will be
informal (we hope for chaotic symbiosis) in the kafana.  Balkan
dance music will be played in both venues (Greek, Hungarian,
Serbian, Electric Macedonian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Rhodope
singing dances, whatever) though, in addition, there is likely to
be some Scandinavian and Cajun in the kafana.  Cathie Springer
will transform this space into a Balkan treasure trove of woven
delights.  This is in a revitalized neighborhood with on and off
street parking (call for details).  Public transportation: F
train to 2nd Ave. or Lexington Ave. line to Astor Place.
 
THE SCHEDULE:
 
Folk Dance Fridays (1/15/93), $7
7PM to 9PM.  Teaching: intro. then advanced.
9PM to Midnight & later.  Golden Festival Preview: Zlatne Uste
    and friends play.
 
Saturday (1/16/93), $14
 
In the Kafana
2:30 PM.  Ritual tapping of the keg: Brooklyn Lager with zurlas.
2:30 to 4.  Decorate, jam, rehearse, test the beer, get
    organized.
4 to 6.  Relaxed playing and jams. Warm up dancing, catch up on
    gossip.
6 to 7:30.  Table music.  Bring your own dinner (from numerous
    local eateries).
7:30 and on.  The music continues.  A Balkan & Middle Eastern
    spread magically appears.
 
In the Main Hall
7PM to 1AM.  Every group will be allocated time in this block.
    The schedule will be posted.  Was it really 16 groups that
    appeared last year?
1AM 'til the end.  Second sets, late comers, experimentations.
    Legends have been born in this segment.
 
INFORMATION/MAILING LIST:
Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band: Michael Ginsburg, 2-12 Seaman Av
    #3B, NY, NY 10034 (212)942-3768, or Emerson Hawley (718)
    859-4759, email <Eshawley%Bklyn.Bitnet@Cunyvm.Cuny.Edu>.
Musicians contact: Drew Harris, 288 5th Av #4F, Brooklyn, NY
    11215 (718)768-0229, FAX: (718)768-0303, email <Dharris@Rnd.
    Stern.Nyu.Edu>.
Accommodations: Hope Geteles (212)831-8046 and Laura Pannaman
    (718)645-9142.
WNYC-FM, 93.9MHz:  Catch Zlatne Uste LIVE  on "Around New York",
    with John Schaefer, from 4-5PM on Monday, January 11, 1993,
    including latest festival updates.