Balkan Beat Box will be performing live in Toulouse this evening. Today is La Fete de La Musique in France. That means all cities and towns are having music all day long and well into the night. Concerts in every public square and every musical style. I started listening to Balkan Beat Box last year and grew to love them. Rio Loco is a festival that began earlier in the week in Toulouse which features music from all over the Balkan States. It’s grand finale is tonight to coincide with La Fete de La Musique. Here is a link to Balkan Beat Box’s page on the Rio Loco site, there is a video and 3 song previews. I would describe them as Gypsy Electronica music, they sing in Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, English, Spanish, Bulgarian, and some others I cannot recognize. I just happened to see that they were playing tonight in Toulouse. There are so many groups performing tonight that it is a miracle that I even saw it. I will have pictures tomorrow.
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La Fete de La Musique probably explains the loud, loud music that was being played just a block or so from our apartment last night, which continued until at least 02h00.
Well we arrived home at 2 AM last night and people were still going out. I think the Salsa club down the street from our house didn’t stop until about 5AM. Last night was crazy, there were so many people out and about and so many different styles of music on every corner. It got very tiring but I had never experienced something like it. I’m glad we don’t live right in the center, we would have never gotten to sleep.
Owen, they are phe-no-me-nal. Thanks for putting me on to them. I’ll go over to Youtube and look them up.
They were great live, I’ve got tons of pictures, I have to make my post about them.