Good Music New York

Friday, December 9th
8:00 pm - Midnight
Hungarian House
213 East 82nd St
between 3rd & 2nd Ave
Manhattan
$12.00 Admission

ASTORIANI: Greek dance music with Matthew Fass (accordion), Greg Squared (clarinet) & Demetri Tashi (lauto). This lilting Greek/Macedonian/Albanian-flavored ensemble gets better & better as anyone who has heard their magical kafana set at Balkan Camp will attest.

DEMETRI TASHI with visiting violinist KEN MCCORMICK, who is a fine musician all the way from the West Coast where he plays with the popular band Anoush!

Saturday, December 2nd
9:00 pm - Midnight
FREE admission
Tea Lounge
837 Union St
(btw 6th and 7th Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Okay, okay. What would be the point of living in this fine international city if you couldn't hear music from around the world? (Feel free to answer this rhetorical question in the privacy of your own home....) One of my personal favorites is Qawwali. Brook's Qawwali party has 12+ members and knows their dumbeks from their djembes. They've got brass, they've got drums, rumor has it they have singers, they have a new CD, and, most importantly, they have Qawwali music to play for you.

Don't stay at home and miss them....

Sunday, December 4th
4:30 pm (Dance lesson at 4:00 pm)
Hungarian House
213 East 82nd St
between 3rd & 2nd Ave
Manhattan
$25 Admission

Two great cajun bands will be traveling to New York and playing a dance at the Hungarian House on the Upper East Side. The show will start at 4:00 pm with a cajun dance lesson followed at 4:30 with the Lil Anne & Hot Cayenne. Once Lil Anne's played enough two steps to bow your legs and and make you scream Ayee The Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band will take to the stage and keep your feet moving till you'll need a wheelchair to get home.

Every Wednesday Night
7:30-10pm
Free
Old Devil Moon
511 E. 12th St.
Between A and B
Full Dinner Menu

From the full tilt roar of a square dance to high lonesome sound in songs of love and murder, the Wahoo String Band primarily plays songs and instrumentals from the American South. On occasion they range a bit farther afield with tunes from Scandinavia, Portugal, Mexico and French Canada.

Monday, November 28th
9:30 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

Trio Con Cuatro performs latin music as played through the prism of Venezuelan Llanera tradition. The group is led by Roberto Fuentes, an extraordinary cuatro player and singer from Venezuela who has been immersed in traditional music since childhood.

Llanera music, which comes from the southern plains of Venezuela, is one of the very distinctive folk forms of South America. It uses mostly 6/8 rhythms such as joropo, golpes and pasajes. Traditional bands are made up of harp, cuatro, bass and maracas and accompany singers whose repertoire deals mostly with the lifestyle of the cowboys of the Llanos - the plains. While some of the material has made it into the classic Latin-American repertoire, the music is little known in America.

Friday, December 2nd
8:00 pm
Hungarian House
213 East 82nd St
between 3rd & 2nd Ave
212-650-1974
$12 Admission

Zlatne Uste (which translates to Golden Lips) is an internationally known group of American-born musicians playing traditional music of the Balkans, primarily representing Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Romany (Gypsy) traditions. From hummable, toe-tapping tunes to humblingly complex rhythms and melodies, their music moves the body and touches the soul.

Four-time invited guest at the Dragachevo Brass Festival in Gucha, Serbia, the 12-piece band is among the foremost presenters of traditional Balkan dance music in the United States.

Friday, November 11th
9:00 PM
Lillie's
46 Beard Street
Corner of Dwight St.
Red Hook, Brooklyn
$5.00 Cover

It's CMA week here in NYC and the New York country music scene is up in arms over being excluded from Nashville's shining lights. There are many events coming up this week. Starting Friday, November 11th at Lillie's Bar. It's the Red Hook Roundup! Featuring six great New York country bands. It's only five bucks and a subway ride away.

• 9:00 - Graveyard Shift
• 10:15 - M. Shanghai String Band