Global Mashup: Morocco Meets The Balkans
Company:
Flushing Town Hall
We’re mashing up two cultures on one stage with an open dance floor. Starting with dance lessons, each band plays a set, then the two meet and jam. Bring your dancing shoes!
Samir LanGus will introduce you to the “Moroccan Blues,” the raw, hypnotic style known as Gnawa. It is this style, played with percussion, that fascinated outside musicians such as writer/composer Paul Bowles, jazz giant Randy Weston and rock god Jimi Hendrix.
Mountain Lions will bring a medley of sound that subverts expectations—so get ready to dance through the styles of the southern Balkans, traditional Greek music, and Turkish and Romani music by way of Greece.
Kristina Vaskys will lead the workshop where you learn to dance through the Balkans.
