Hosted By:
Kafana Balkan & Campo Bravo

When:
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Where:
Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell @ Van Ness
San Francisco
8 PM - 2 AM
$ 10
Description:
Come out to San Francisco's premier Mardi Gras international freak out. A wild all night dance party featuring two of SF's highest energy bands and the Bay Areas best Balkan DJ, what promises to be a wild and sweat soaked Mardi Gras celebration. : Brass Menazeri - Balkan brass extravaganza Tunes
Campo Bravo radical Portuguese-American psychedelic rockers.

DJ ZELJKO - mixing an assortment of Balkan music including Boban
Markovic, Kocani Orchaestra,Bane Novkovic and Fanfare Ciorcalia
The show will also feature the projected works of celebrated Brazilian
Film Maker and Campo Bravo collaborator Rita Piffer, Mardi Gras beads
at the door, and Mardi Gras / Carnaval themed drinks.
$10.-

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Hosted By:
Kafana Balkan + Campo Bravo

When:
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Where:
Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell @ Van Ness
San Francisco
8pm - 2 am
$ 10.-

Description:
Come out to San Francisco's premier Mardi Gras international freak out. A wild all night dance party featuring two of SF's highest energy bands and the Bay Areas best Balkan DJ, what promises to be a wild and sweat soaked Mardi Gras celebration. : Brass Menazeri - Balkan bras extravaganca Tunes Campo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAyubE1AAlI

SF Weekly
Hopa!
By Toph One
Published: November 7, 2007

It's easy to forget yesterday's tragedies, as so many new ones quickly take their place. But the organizers of Kafana Balkan hope you won't forget the thousands of refugees and orphans from the 1999 Kosovo war and renewed ethnic tensions of 2004, who are still struggling to cope and survive. Enter DJs Zeljko and Boban, expatriates from the region who promote the event as not only a celebration of Balkan music and culture, but also as a benefit for the Bread and Cheese Circus (Hleb I Sir Cirkus), which puts on free shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo. The war and forced migrations affected Albanian, Serb, and Roma alike. Hence, the circus comprises performers from Serbia, Bosnia, the U.S., and Canada, in a show of nonpartisan unity. Don't think of Cirque du Soleil, either: These are earthy, pratfalling clowns more of the Krusty variety than the upper-crusty. They perform at Kafana Balkan along with Oakland's Brass Mena--eri, a lively brass band in the Balkan, Serbian, and Rom tradition featuring members of Gamelan X and Lavay Smith's band. DJ Zeljko, whose Pirate Cat radio show (also called Kafana Balkan) airs Wednesdays at noon, spins between sets.
Sat., Nov. 10, 9 p.m., 2007


Guardian
Crazy quilt:The forecast in Clubland
BY MARKE B.
Wednesday October 24, 2007

"If there's anything close to the authentic madness that is true Balkan partying in the Bay Area, it is us," Boban, promoter of the raucous quarterly Kafana Balkan party, told me over the phone. "People come to let it loose in true Balkan-region style. They get up the next morning, maybe with a little hangover, ha, and then they are refreshed in their daily maintenance of the machine.

I should add here that Boban has the kind of deep, heavily accented, tinged-with-grins voice that could probably lead anyone into mountainous, oud-and-cümbüs-driven bliss. Lately, indie rock has embraced the Balkan spirits, but Kafana's no mere Gogol Bordello–Beirut–Balkan Beat Box hoedown: DJ Zeljko brings the Rom and rakiya-fueled real, with selections from the likes of Boban Markovic Orkestar and Fanfare Ciorcarlia. It all whirls round in a carnivalesque atmosphere that includes clowns from Bread and Cheese Circus and live Bay Area Balkan band Brass Menazerie. Plus, Kafana's a benefit for Humanitarian Circus, which performs for Kosovar orphans. Grab your dumbek and get — sorry — Mace-down-ian.

September 12th, 2008

KAFANA BALKAN & HORNUCOPIA FESTIVAL PRESENT


"BRASS MENAZERI"


Record Release Party

AT THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL

859 O'Farell St @ Polk

San Francisco, CA . 94109

8PM Doors/ Show at 9PM

Tickets at www.hornucopiafestival.org



Advance $ 15.-

Door $ 20.-





The night's festivities will include:

BRASSHOPPER brass band in the great old New Orleans style



APHRODESIA, masters of Afrobeat



DJ ZELJKO- mixing an assortment of Balkan music including Boban Markovic, Kocani Orchaestra,Bane Novkovic and Fanfare Ciorcalia



"BRASS MENAZERI" presenting their new Record "Vranjski San" playing Balkan Gypsy Tunes with bellydancers ELIZABETH STRONG + MIRA BETZ





Come out and support a great cause and listen to some great music.Zeljko, Joe & Sol invite you to
Brass Menazeri's Record Release Party.

http://www.brassmenazeri.com/




Balkan Music June 27th, 2008
KAFANA BALKAN
At 12GALAXIES
2565 Mission Street @ 22nd
San Francisco, CA . 94110
415-970-9777

Sliding scale $8-25

Come out and support a great cause and listen to some great music. Boban,Zeljko & Joe invite you to our fifth installment of KAFANA BALKAN. A benefit for the Humanitarian Circus who make free circus shows and workshops for refugee children and orphans in war zones and developing countries. You can view photage and find out more about the circus by visiting:

www.myspace.com/humanitariancircus

The night's festivities will include:
Brass Menazeri playing Balkan Gypsy Tunes
www.brassmenazeri.com/
DJ Zeljko - mixing an assortment of Balkan music including Boban Markovic, Kocani Orchaestra,Bane Novkovic and Fanfare Ciorcalia


Come out and support a great cause and listen to some great music. Boban, Zeljko & Joe invite you to our third installment of KAFANA BALKAN. A benefit for the Bread and Cheese circus that has been making free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo for the past 4 years. The international troupe consists of members from Bosnia, Serbia, Canada, And the United States. You can view photage and find out more about the circus by visiting:

www.myspace.com/humanitariancircus

The night's festivities will include:
EDESSA - Live Balkan Orchestra (edessamusic.com/)
DJ ZELJKO
Spinning Balkan dance tunes, mixing an assortment of Balkan music including Boban Markovic, Kocani Orchaestra, and Fanfare Ciorcalia
Clowning with members of the Bread and Cheese Circus
Art from Balkan and Local artists
Are you on myspace and want to find out about future Kafana Balkan events, join us as a friend @
www.myspace.com/kafanabalkan

Check out the pictures from our Show at 12 GALAXIES on Nov 10th: www.flickr.com/gp/88895475@N00/0u903r





February 3rd, 2007

KAFANA BALKAN @ ARTSF

110 CAPP ST @ 16th
8PM-1AM


Sliding scale $8-15




Come out and support a great cause and listen to some great music. Boban and Zeljko invite you to our very first installment of KAFANA BALKAN. A benefit for the Bread and Cheese circus that has been making free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo for the past 4 years. The international troupe consists of members from Bosnia, Serbia, Canada, And the United States. You can view photage and find out more about the circus by visiting:



http://www.myspace.com/humanitariancircus




The night's festivities will include:

BRASS MENAGERIE-Live Balkan Gypsy Brass Orchestra (http://brass.menazeri.com/)

DJ Pod - spinning Balkan dance tunes

DJ Zeljko - mixing an assortment of Balkan music including Boban Markovic, Kocani Orchaestra, and Fanfare Ciorcalia

Clowning with members of the Bread and Cheese Circus

Art from Balkan and Local artists


Are you on myspace and want to find out about future Kafana Balkan events, join us as a friend @


http://www.myspace.com/kafanabalkan