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Stary Olsa (Special Event)
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Stary Olsa (Special Event)
When
26 Sep 2017
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Ballroom Blum, Hyattsville, MD
This high-energy Renaissance dance band from Belarus will be playing boisterously at the Maryland Renaissance Festival this fall: "Belarusian folk balladry and martial songs, Belarusian national dances, works of Belarusian Renaissance composers, compositions from Belarusian aulic music collections (e.g. Polack Notebook, Vilnia Notebook), Belarusian canticles of the 16th - early 17th centuries, as well as European popular melodies of the Middle Ages and Renascence ? - and some 20th-century classic rock! This encore performance on the dance floor at Ballroom Blum will include Belarusian folk dance lessons accompanied by lutes and shawms and Belarusian bagpipes and svirels and birchbark trumpets and rebecs and doumbeks. $15 suggested donation. At April Blum's in Adelphi. RSVP & directions: president@fsgw.org.
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