Cafe Antarsia Cabaret
Cafe Antarsia
Wed Feb 9th – CAFE ANTARSIA performs passionate, intimate gypsy arias and soliloquies with roots in Greek blues, Americana cabaret and Arabic percussion. Tickets $7 – 730pm
“…intricate and intriguing …part opera, part folk concert, part performance art piece, this show kept us watching, kept us believing” – The Observatory, The United Kingdom
“Audaciously original” – The Moscow Times
“Cafe Antarsia is the real thing.“ Gypsy Rock and New York Blues, NYC
“Hypnotic…brutal…a baptism of fire.” – The Austin Chronicle
CAFE ANTARSIA performs passionate, intimate gypsy arias and soliloquies with roots in Greek blues, Americana cabaret and Arabic percussion. Tickets $7.
“…intricate and intriguing …part opera, part folk concert, part performance art piece, this show kept us watching, kept us believing” – The Observatory, The United Kingdom “Audaciously original” – The Moscow Times “Cafe Antarsia is the real thing.“ Gypsy Rock and New York Blues, NYC “Hypnotic…brutal…a baptism of fire.” – The Austin Chronicle
Cafe Antarsia has toured all over the world to Azerbaijan, Egypt, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Czech Rep., UK, Canada, Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, India, etc. Their ornaments and stories owe much to wandering the marketplaces of Sarajevo, Dubrovnik and Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia as well as to the painted darkness of theaters and epic taverns all the way from Astoria, Queens to the timeless island of Crete.
Performers
RUTH MARGRAFF (lyrics, vocals, accordion); NIKOS BRISCO (composer, vocals, gypsy guitar, Greek bouzouki); RON RILEY (guitar, Delta slide, vocals) and RAMI EL-AASSER (Arabic hand percussion riq, darbuka, vocals)