Prospect Place Fiddle Fest at Way Station 4/11

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Prospect Place Fiddle Festival

String bands based on Prospect between Flatbush & Washington

Approved by the Prospect Place (Flatbush to Underhill) Block Association

Why travel to India or Romania to hear amazing fiddle music? There are great musicians right in the neighborhood, and we’re bringing the music to you.

at

The Way Station

683 Washington Ave.

Thursday

April 11

8:30 pm:

MetroFolk – Transylvanians are known for partying all night, and this is the actual music that brings them to life. Come get down to hard-driving fiddle music from the Transylvanian counties. The group is lead by the amazing Jake Shulman-Ment, just back from his Fulbright research trip to study Jewish music in Moldavia. Raul Rothblatt will represent Prospect Place on his 3-string Hungarian-style bass.

10 pm:

Karavika (led by Trina Basu & Amali Premawardhana) and the Arun Ramamurthy Trio are two of New York's improvising string based ensembles. Interweaving the colorful threads found in Indian Classical music, Jazz & American folk styles, they create a soundscape that is unique & beautiful.. The artists combined include violinists Arun Ramamurthy and Trina Basu (both of Prospect Place), cellist Amali Premawardhana, bassist Perry Wortman, tabla player/drummer, Sameer Gupta.

11 pm

The Red Hot Rubies is a string band playing western swing, early jazz, and some fiery appalachian tunes and singing sweet harmonies. They will leave you holding on to your seats like you're on a run away train, then leave you dreamy eyed looking at the stars. Sarah Alden (of Prospect Place) — fiddle, Rima Fand — violin, Raphael Mcgregor, Avi Fox-Rosen-Guitar, Jason Sypher-Bass.

walkathon

Thanks for warning me.

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Come check out the three shockingly great fiddle bands from Prospect Place! And let me know if there are other Prospect Heights music festivals out there. Suggestions?