The Budapest Café Orchestra set to appear at The Apex later in the month

Led by celebrated jazz violin Christian Garrick, The Budapest Café Orchestra (pictured above) is to appear at The Apex, in Bury St Edmunds, at the end of this month.

The show evokes vivid images of fiddle maestros, Hungarian café life and gypsy campfires as the band whirl their way through traditional folk and gypsy flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia.

This aural alchemy comes from a small but impeccably formed orchestra of just four musicians, playing violin, guitar, accordion, double bass, saz and balalaika.

The set list features mournful Klezmer melodies, raucous Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czadas and beautiful ballads, including the theme to “Schindler’s List”.

Christian Garrick has played with the likes of Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Nigel Kennedy and Caro Emerald, while accordionist Eddie Hession has accompanied Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Chris Rea.

Adrian Zolotuhin is a master of the strummed strings of domra, balalaika, guitar and saz and veteran bass-man Kelly Cantlon found fame in the late 1960s with northern soul sensations Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.

The Budapest Café Orchestra will be at The Apex on Thursday, February 27, at 7.30pm. See www.theapex.co.uk or ring 01284 758000 for more information, or to book tickets.

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