Karavan! International Gypsy Music Festival

Musiktrafik presents the biggest gypsy party in the Southern hemisphere. Karavan! International Gpysy Music Festival 2012. Rolling into town for its third season this year Karavan! will bring with it the most exciting and diverse line up yet featuring Baro Banda the band who will take you deep into the heart of gypsy Istanbul. The band is made up of three Romany, two Turkish, one Turkish Australian and one Australian musician. They are the truly global band who bridge the gap between East and West with heavy Turkish Romany grooves to drum’n’bass, dub, funk, jazz and hip hop.

The Melbourne show will also feature prolific globetrotting electro funkster DJ Click (France) and the high-energy-future-folk-post-apocalyptic hoedown sounds of Australian chainsaw folk vigilantes The Crooked Fiddle Band (Sydney). Melbourne favorites The Band Who Knew too Much, Vardos, Systa BB, Karavana and Byzantine Blues complete the line up for what will be a non stop journey through the heart of gypsy music, from the passionate flamenco of Andalusia to the cry of the Turkish gypsy clarinet and the foot stomping Balkan opa!

WHEN: Saturday 25 February 2012
WHERE: Corner Hotel
TICKETS: $40 (+$3 booking fee) Door $50 full $45 Conc
cornerhotel.com 94279198
LINE UP:
BARO BANDA (Istanbul)
DJ CLICK (Paris)
CROOKED FIDDLE BAND (Sydney)
THE BAND WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Melbourne)
VARDOS (Melbourne)
SYSTA BB (Melbourne)
KARAVANA (Melbourne)
BYZANTINE BLUES (Melbourne)

Visit: www.karavanfestival.com.