After their brilliant gig back in March Los Langeros, from Langerland in Cork, will be performing their usual Psychotropic Goat-Punk, this Saturday night in Mc Girls once again 🙂
This is a gig not to be missed!!
Here’s a taster of what we’ve been missing…
Mi Casa – Mantua Festival 2007
Killing Frogs – Sugar Club, Dublin
For more, see: http://www.myspace.com/loslangeros or better still come along to the gig!! 🙂
BALKAN ALIEN SOUND appear live at McGIRLS BAR, BALLINAMORE, Co. LEITRIM on SAT 12 JUNE , this gig will be an outside event (if it does rain we will move the gig into the big stone shed, but its not going to rain anyways). There will be hot food available (fallafels) at a reasonable price as well as the lovely pints served in Liam’s bar. BALKAN ALIEN SOUND play great gypsy klezmer dancing music, just what’s needed for a summer nights entertainment!
Entry is a recession beating €5, wow – that’s unbelievably good value!!!
http://www.myspace.com/balkanaliensound
Balkan Alien Sound founded in 2007 after Bouzouki player Martin Coyle returned to Ireland from his travels and studies of Eastern European and Balkan music and culture. With a vast interest in the folk and gypsy music of the Balkan regions and Klezmer music he approached a group of his close musician friends to form what is now Balkan Alien Sound.
The seven piece ensemble ranges from Irish traditional players, Blues and Jazz musicians and Classical and Folk players. With this melting pot of backgrounds Balkan Alien Sound provide their own fresh take on the music of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia and Turkey along with various other gypsy styling and improvisation. The instrumentation of the group is mostly string based with Bouzouki, Violin, Bass/Contra Bass and Guitar, but also has Accordion, Whistles, Percussion and regional Vocals from various Balkan countries.
The music that comes from this is often fast and furious demanding to be danced to verging on ska with odd time signatures and rhythms often ending in riotous crowd participation. However they also approach the slower folk songs of Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia which vocalist Aideen McGinn tackles with precision and subtlety.
Over the last year in particular the bands popularity has grown both in Ireland, the UK and Europe and they have played numerous festivals such as: DERRY JAZZ FESTIVAL – DERRY, LIFE FESTIVAL – GALWAY, TRANS FESTIVAL – BELFAST, GASYARD FEILE – DOIRE, DERRY FOLK FEILE – DOIRE, GLASGOWBURY FESTIVAL – IRELAND, RED LINE FESTIVAL – DUBLIN, SACRED TRINITY, CHURCH – MANCHESTER, EURO-CULTURE FESTIVAL – DUBLIN/MANCHESTER, BOMBETA FOLK FESTIVAL – BARCELONA, GLASTONBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL UK 2010 – HAVE JUST BE CONFIRMED FOR THIS YEARS GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL!!!!
The group hold down residency spots in bars in Derry and Donegal, Ireland and regularly invite bands from other Countries to come to stay and play in Ireland along with Balkan Alien Sound – most recently The Underscore Orkestra, U.S.A. and Txutxukan, France. As well as this they work closely with the Derry and Donegal Arts Councils providing music for outdoor events such as STREET THEATRE GROUPS and CIRCUS ACTS.
A Paddys weekend gig will take place at McGirls on Sat 20th March, when LOS LANGEROS make a welcome return to this region. McGirls Bar, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim will play host to the legendary LOS LANGEROS on Saturday 20th March.
The amazing Langeros have been around gigging for over 6 years now and have independently released three full length Cds to great critical acclaim. The 5 piece band (6 for this show with the addition of a trumpet player) consists of Pedro Dolphino on mandolin, the Nodge on guitar, vocals, mouth organ, jews harp and tambourine, Captain Phil Langero on lead guitar and vocals all ably backed up by the powerhouse rhythm section of Joe Bandito on bass and Keri Cajones on drums.
This psychotropic goat punk band regularly dazzle audiences at the main festivals throughout the year, including Cork jazz fest, electric picnic, mantua and oxygen. Their groove is a punkabilly ska tinged medley of sing-along choruses and distorted 12 string melodies guaranteed to work any crowd into a slobbering mess. Hailing from Cork Los Langeros fuse careering electric mandolin, punkabilly-country with fervid stage antics and a sense of unpredictability, in short they are the ultimate good time party band, of that you can rest assured it will be a night you will remember!
This will be the last Los Langeros gig in Ireland until May as they set off on a tour of Russia throughout April. They will be promoting their latest CD ‘Normal Voodoo’, which will be available on the night. Visit their webpage at www.myspace.com/loslangeros. Support comes from local band LOOPHOLE who are a guitar driven psychedelic mind warp band consisting of ex members of Dr. Bloodmoney and guitar virtuoso CK.
Bands start at 9.30pm and there is a cover charge of €5 and there will be a reggae disco after the bands on til late!! This great musical event is brought to you by Poo Promotions Unlimited in association with Liam McGirl & McGirls Bar, Ballinamore.
Willie of the famed Fuzz Rock Sound System will be spinning discs in McGirls on the 3rd saturday night of every month. If the music and atmosphere are as special as the february `disco` then the night of March 20th will be fun. Dont miss it. The february event was a fundraiser for the House of Hope Charity. 360 euro was raised and the money has been forwarded. Sincere Thanks to everyone.
A fundraiser in aid of The House of Hope Charity will be held in the bar on saturday night Feb. the 13th. The House of Hope was founded by Edward Muyoboke in 1988 out of an urgent need to save children in an area where hundreds are orphaned by war and HIV. This charity is located in Kasese ,Uganda near the borders of Congo and Rwanda. Edward grew up in a refugee camp and got asylum in Canada. For 22 years he has taken in homeless children initially in a house he had built . Now the children stay in school where they get food education and a place to sleep. The older children are in college -some have graduated. The building in which the children originally lived is now a refuge for women who have been displaced by war and cannot return to their families.Some of their families are dead and some were raped and in their society cannot go home. Edward has been ill with cancer but he cannot give up on his orphans . Please come to this fundraiser and help keep the House of Hope Charity strong.
Jigs & Reels
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