Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org Bringing Russian Music, Song, & Dance to Southern Arizona Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:54:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Announcing our New CD, Balalaikas in the Desert http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=193 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=193#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:44:43 +0000 AzBalalaika http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=193 Announcing our new CD, sure to delight your ears, hot off the presses this week, just in time for our 30th Anniversary Concert this weekend!

 

The CD was recorded live over several concerts from recent years, and recently remastered by Roger Foreman, who is featured on violin on the CD and in this weekend's concerts, playing his original piece Taborny Vecher

Roger Foreman
Arizona
FSU
 

Cover Art by percussionist extraordinaire, Arianna Nicolini, who is featured on the CD and in this weekend's concerts, performing xylophone wizardry in "Concert Piece for Xylophone."

 

The CD will be available for $15 at the concession table during intermission.

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Save the dates January 30 & 31, 2010

for the performances of


The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra's

30th Anniversary Concert

with Visiting Guest Artists from Moscow

 

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domra-front-75Alexander Tsygankov on Domra, painted_balalaika-75

Inna Shevhenko on Piano


along with

The Sons of Orpheus Male Choir of Tucson

The Rusyny Dancers

and Arianna Nicolini on her magic xylophone

 

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Dr. Alexander Tentser Conducting


Sat., Jan.30 at 7:00 pm

Sun., Jan. 31 at 2:00pm

Pima Community College Center for the Arts

Box office: 206-6986

For Info: 327-4418 or AzBalalaika.org

 

Download Flyer for your friends:

2 per page, or 4 per page

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=120 0 Az Balalaika Orchestra at Tucson Meet Yourself, Oct. 10th http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=87 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=87#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:50:06 +0000 AzBalalaika http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=87 The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be performing with the Sons of Orpheus Male Choir at the Tucson Meet Yourself festival this weekend. We will be on the City Hall Stage, Saturday Oct. 10th , from 1:00pm-2:00pm. We have a lot of great numbers lined up, so bring your kids, relatives, friends, & neighbors!

The Tucson Meet Yourself festival is a long multi-cultural tradition in Tucson, with plenty of parking available. So preview the program and don’t miss it.

Tucson Meet Yourself program cover

See you there!

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=87 0 Az Balalaika Orchestra at Tucson Folk Festival http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=76 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=76#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 17:04:49 +0000 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=76 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!

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=76 1 Joining Sons of Orpheus, 3 Spring Dates http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=74 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=74#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:23:10 +0000 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=74 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.

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=74 0 Az Balalaika Orch to be at 4th Avenue Street Fair, Saturday 3/21 1:30pm http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=69 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=69#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:42:31 +0000 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=69 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be performing at the 4th Ave. Street Fair, Tucson, AZ, Saturday March 21, 1:30pm

Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be performing at the 4th Ave. Street Fair, Tucson, AZ, Sat March 21, 1:30pm

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!

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=69 0 2pm March 1st, EMAT cultural performance http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=66 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=66#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:59:13 +0000 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=66 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

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=66 1 2pm, Sunday March 1st, Foothills Mall at the EMAT festival http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=62 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=62#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:05:50 +0000 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=62 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!

]]> http://www.azbalalaika.org/?feed=rss2&p=62 0 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra newly modernized web site http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=64 http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=64#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:30:18 +0000 Arizona Balalaika Orchestra http://www.azbalalaika.org/?p=64 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!

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