World Music

East of Ealing

"Goodtime roots rockers saw their fiddles, squeeze boxes, slap basses and hammer guitars in a global stomp of musical mayhem." (TIME OUT)

"Wowee! Techno roots, world reelin! Featuring a flame haired, foxy fiddlestral named Stephanie Graffitti very tasty stuff......heavily recommended" (FOLK ROUTES)

"An irrepressible outfit whipping up an acoustic music storm and trailblazing through a varied landscape of roots music territories. Their stomping rhythm raises the rafters - resulting in a gritty and effective raw and raunchy blowout," (ROCKnREEL)

"Packed with people, a great hit at the festival club, and in fact voted favourite act!" (CHELTENHAM FRINGE FESTIVAL)

"Good time world drinking music---lock up your optics!" (EVENTS SOUTH WEST)

"Driving sexy fiddle and stomping accordian EAST OF EALING are kicking... file under Brit-folk and take yer dancin boots!" (PETE FEENSTRA, MEAN FIDDLER)

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Tziganarama

Welcome to Tziganarama. For those of you who, inexplicably, haven't come across us before, we're a 3 -piece band based in London, playing gypsy, klezmer and Eastern European folk music on fiddle, (Chris Haigh), accordion (Alan Dunn) and double bass (Bernard O'Neill)

Why call ourselves Tziganarama? The Tzigani are East European gypsies, and Bananarama were a seventies girl band...what more can I say? Our repertoire includes Klezmer, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Polish traditional tunes, along with a good number of original numbers written by Chris

We aim to present a broad range of styles including the dark and mysterious doinas of Romania, the baffling rhythms of the Balkan horos, the lively Khosid bulgars and cossack dances, jolly Polish polkas and slinky New York klezmer. We try to present it in an infomative as well as humourous manner

As well as playing concerts at Arts Centres, festivals and village halls, we also do lots of weddings and private functions, either playing for dancing, doing background music, or sometimes going round the tables. We played for a party in Elton John's back garden, in front of the shark tank at the London Aquarium (for a party of Russian millionaires - in fact we were surrounded by sharks!), and for the Lebanese mafia in a Beiruit nightclub

Billus Bangra Buskers
(Available with Bollywood Dancer/s)

East African born Billu Gandhi has been involved in the arts from a very young age, with his first performance at the age of 'five'. Working with other musicians, then performing with the pioneers of Bhangra Bands 'ALAAP' - Billu's repertoire grew immensely

'ALAAP' became famous with their performances, then working with well known 'Deepak Khazana' - recording artiste in the 1970's, who recorded 'ALAAP' first album - 'Teri chunni de sitare'. The album was a hit all over the world which resulted in their first tour to Africa, Canada, America, Singapore and Australia. Billu went from strength to strength, playing at the Royal Albert Hall with playback singers from 'Bollywood' Bombay. This opportunity gave him the incentive to move from the 'Bhangra' scene to the 'Hindi' one, working with top musicians from the bollywood film industry. Consequently he went on to perform with 'Kishore Kumar' and Asha Bhosle', two of the many legends of 'bollywood'

Billu continued with his passion of music and backed 'UB40' and 'Robert Palmer', touring Chile, Brasil covering a lot of South America. Billu then went back to Bhangra and Punjabi folk music where he did a lot of television and radio shows promoting and playing with Jaspinder Narula, Abhijeet and Babu Supero

Egbe Oduniyi

Oduniyi Bata Ensemble is a collective of drummers/singers who have been performing and practising Bata drumming and Orisha Oriki - praise singing- in London since 1996. Most of them are British born but from different backgrounds including: Trinidadian, Jamaican, Cuban and English

Jeremy Allen

Jeremy Allen trained and worked as an actor for 5 years before turning his hand to music and writing. As well as gigging around the London circuit, he has written and performed 'The Scarecrow' - a modern, musical fairytale - at the Emery Theatre in Poplar and at The Heathcote Arms. Jeremy has also toured a one-man children's show- 'Tales of Brer Rabbit'- around Arts Centres in the South-East and in 1999 won a Melody Maker sponsored lyric writing competition for a song called 'The Magnificent Evans'

He has gigged regularly at venues such as the 12-Bar Club, Acoustic Café, Mean Fiddler, Dublin Castle and The Spot in Covent Garden. Festivals have included Cambridge, Oxford, Fleadh and Harlow

His music combines folk, jazz and Turkish influences with traditional pop/rock structures. It has been described as melodic, evocative and atmospheric

Silvia Rox

Rome-born and now London based artist performer who has been studying and performing Latin American music from an early ag, fusing it with blues, rock and European musical references as eloquently shown in her timely CD tribute to Chilean singer Victor Jara titled "Homenaje a Una Sonrisa"

A distinctive and powerful singer-guitarist & songwriter in her own right (a multi-lingual writer of English, Spanish and Italian works) she has developed a unique style by revisiting the songs of Latin American legendary singers such as the Nueva Cancion movement Violeta Parra and Victor Jara (Chile) and Nueva Trova Silvio Rodriguez (Cuba). A talented and committed songstress whose repertoire embraces the continent's colourful and diverse geographic styles from Mexico to Cuba right down to the Tierra del Fuego!