Hopefully you’ve caught one of our previously posted spring shows in the Russian segmant of  Sons of Orpheus’ Gala Spring Concert (last performance tonight at the Saddlebrook clubhouse).

And you can catch us again on Sunday — This weekend all weekend are performances by great musicians at the Annual Tucson Folk Festival downtown in Presideo Park.   The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra is participating, and will be performing on the Plaza Stage from 2:00-2:30, with our great toe-tapping Russian gig numbers.

We are following the very popular Privy Tippers, so if you want a seat, be sure and get there early!

See you there!

Greetings!   The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be joining the Sons of Orpheus Male Choir of Tucson for their Annual Gala Spring Concert, on 3 concert dates:

Apr 5–3 pm–PCC Proscenium (Pima College West)
Apr 25–2 pm–Rancho Sahuarita
May 2–7 pm–SaddleBrooke

We will be joining the Sons for the Russian section of their concert, for several numbers in the 2nd half.

Details here: http://www.sonsoforpheus.org/perform.htm

Hope you can make one (or more) of those dates.

Catch the Arizona Balalaika Orchestra this weekend at the Fourth Avenue Street Fair, Saturday March 21st, 1:30pm.  We will play several short sets, interspersed with crowd mingling, showing off our unique instruments and always recruiting new members

You can find us at the Winsett Stage (aka  the “Hawk Quest” area), near Hoff & 9th Street, at the SE (top left) corner of this map.

Hundreds of Artisans, and dozens of performing groups invited by the Cultural Exchange Council.

See you there!

Title: 2pm March 1st, EMAT cultural performance
Location: Foothills Mall, Tucson, AZ
Link out: Click here
Description: The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be performing at 2pm on Sunday March 1st in the EMAT Festival:

2/28-3/1 TUCSON: EMAT Spring Fair - Foothills Mall, by the European Multicultural Alliance of Tucson, 15 European ethnic clubs have booths with information, crafts, and some have food, entertainment, free, noon – 5 pm, 520-326-7330 or EMAT-Tucson.org web site.
Start Time: 2:00
Date: 2009-03-01
End Time: 2:30

The Arizona Balalalika Orchestra will be giving a performance as part of the Spring Festival of the European Multi-Ethnic Allience of Tucson on Sunday, March 1st, from 2:00-2:30.  It promises to be a lively and fun event.

From the festival site:

28-3/1 TUCSON: EMAT Spring Fair - Foothills Mall, by the European Multicultural Alliance of Tucson, 15 European ethnic clubs have booths with information, crafts, and some have food, entertainment, free, noon – 5 pm, 520-326-7330 or www.emat-tucson.org

See you there!

Hello, and announcing the newly modernized web site for the Arizona Balalaika Orchestra, at http://www.azbalalaika.org. It carries over some of the content from the original web site, but most importantly, its functionality is much improved. It has an Events Calendar, and has been bloggified, so that we can keep you more frequently up to date, orchestra members can contribute photos, articles, links, and sound bites, and anyone in the general public can also contribute comments.

Our email subscription system has also been updated from the old Yahoo system to a new automated method which sends out an email to subscribers whenever a new post is added.  Subcribers from the Yahoo system have been transferred over, but each email comes with subscribe/unsubscribe options as well.

Another cool feature is that our headline posts now go out automatically over Twitter, so if you really really like us, you can even have our concert and gig announcements sent to your cell phone!  Just follow us at http://twitter.com/AzBalalaika.

Stay tuned for our next gig announcement!