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Bizerka NewsNews - June 7th, 2008If you're wondering why we don't have any new gigs lined up, its because we're having a few weeks off while the girls practice hard for their Uni exams. We are however about to start learning some new tunes next week and also should be playing in Yackandandah and Albury in August which should be fun! Thanks to everyone who came along to our gigs at Carni and Open Studio - we had lots of fun and hopefully so did you. Anyways, as soon as we have our new gigs lined up we'll let you all know through the newsletter. News - March 23rd, 2008Everyone had a great time playing at Yackandandahh Folk Festival last weekend! We did 4 gigs and they all seemed to go down well with the crowd - it was good (funny) to see people trying to dance in 11/8 during the Kopanitsa! A big thanks to Melska and Stephanja for their guest singing appearances. We took along a couple of video cameras to the festival and so we've got a couple of clips available now for you to see. We've put them up on the new Video section of the site. Dave also took some took some video footage and heaps of photos which we'll be adding soon as well, so make sure you visit again soon to see them. Next weekend we're doing 3 gigs - a couple of Harmony Day concerts as well as one at the CERES Harvest Festival. You can find more information on our gigs page. News - February 6th, 2008Bizerka is getting busier! After a three hour set at Palookaville in Fitzroy in mid-Jan, the band followed up with another short set at the same venue on Feb 5 that was filmed for Channel 31. Watch this space for details of when the set will be on air. There are plenty of gigs coming up for the band in the next couple of months, including something we are all looking forward to - the Yackandandah Folk Festival! This coincides with a significant birthday for our guitarist so it should be a huge weekend. The band’s repertoire continues to expand and now includes a couple of Serbian kolos (dances) and several Russian favourites. See the Bizerka gigs page for more info on upcoming performances. News December 12th, 2007
To our utter amazement the band was as to do a 7/8 piece as an encore! We played a second encore piece after that but had to stop as our arms were literallly dropping off after 3 hours hard and fast playing. Thanks heaps for having us there Yack! We ended up staying up until 4am partying on despite the fact that we really needed sleep to get through the gig on Sunday. After 4 1/2 hours sleep, 5 bleary-eyed musicians headed off for the gig in Wunghu where we played 2 much more sedate sets, but still had lots of fun. There's some photos of the weekend in the Bizerka Photo Gallery for those interested in seeing the band's first road trip! News December 1st, 2007We've been rehearsing out little backsides off recently, even rehearsing twice this week. We've got 2 gigs coming up next weekend and one of them is a 3 hour set, so we've had to learn heaps more repertoire. Some of it's easy, but a lot of it's quite tricky - either heaps of notes or in tricky time signatures. I love playing in 11/8, but it took a few weeks for the band to become comfortable with it. Among the new pieces are some Greek tunes which sound a bit like Klezmer (probably not helped by the fact I changed the key from major to minor) as well as an evil version of Teddy Bear's Picnic which would give any child nightmares! Surprisingly, the piece which has turned out to be everyone's favorite is a Turkish piece called Rampi Rampi in 9/8, but grouped as 2 + 2 + 2 +3. Again, it took a while to get sorted out, but now everyone loves it. We hope to start getting into gigging in a serious way next year and already have several gigs lined up in March and April - but one's in Sydney and the other in Albury - a long way away!!! NEWS October 22nd, 2007We're looking for gigs!!! If you can offer us a gig, please give Niggles a call on 0410 685 839. Also, if you're an Australian based band, why not add you link to AMWS - AMWS - providing Australian music links and resources since 1994. NEWS October 17th, 2007We've finally had the chance to do a proper demo recording! In the end we recorded 4 pieces and are pretty happy with the result. It's designed to get us some gigs and to use when applying for festivals. You can hear the MP3's on our repertoire page. We also managed to score ourselves a gig in Yackandandah on December 8th which should be lots of fun. With a bit of luck we'll also play in Violet Town on the Friday night to make the trip worthwhile. NEWS August 10th, 2007
Date: Friday 21st Sept Click the thumbnail to see a fullsize version of the poster!!! NEWS July 10th, 2007Teal, joined us tonight on Percussion! Everything which was fast and energetic suddenly became even more so and the quiet passages kept up a consistent speed instead of slowing down. Overall, everything felt much more lively and together with the help of Teal's excellent playing and obviously very skilled chops!!! NEWS June 27th, 2007We now have a full band together and are going to put a demo recording together next Monday night. We've decided to record 3 sets of tunes for the demo: • Murguletul / Briul pe Sase We're looking forward to doing the recording and can't wait to get out there gigging! We'd also like to welcome Jody and her fiery fiddle playing to the band - for a classically trained musician she's playing like someone who grew up in a Romanian village!!! NEWS May 29th, 2007After weeks of searching, it looks like we may have found ourselves a Cellist to fill in the bass end! In a strange twist of fate, a friend put us onto someone Josh and I had met several years ago playing at a folk festival in our old band Katyusha. It also redresses the gender balance which was in danger of becoming male dominated! We welcome Chess and look forward to playing music with her. |
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