> Can you please send these messages a couple days in
> advance of the event instead of 4 hours in advance?
> I would have liked to attend the performance, but
> didn't get the email until now.


My great apologies. I will certainly give it my best. Because of a
confluence of events, I almost missed it myself!

Just before we played today, I found out that KXCI (91.3 FM) would be
broadcasting the Folk Festival, but I didn't know which stage they
would air, because there were 4 or more stages going at once. It did
turn out to be our stage, time delayed by 90 minutes. I sure wish I
could have known about all this in advance. There were ALOT of
people all over the country I sure would have liked to tell about it,
to listen via the KXCI web site. As it was, I couldn't even get home
in time to let anybody know. The Folk Festival runs through tomorrow
(Sunday), so I will be tuning in for some more music, myself.

There will likely be at least one outdoor AZ Balalaika Orchestra event
coming up in the fall (maybe Tucson Meet Yourself?), and now that I
know it's sometimes done, I will try to find out if it will be
broadcast too.

Our next big event in the near future (which I personally cannot make
this time), is to join the Sons of Orpheus Men's Choir at their annual
May concert on May 14th & 15th, at Pima Community College West. They
join us in our annual February concerts for 4-5 rousing choral
numbers, and we join them in their annual May concerts for the Russian
portion of their repertoire. These are generally the same numbers for
different audiences. The rest of their concert is _not_ Russian. But
if you enjoy both of our groups, you might be interested in their
concert/ticket information at http://www.sonsoforpheus.org

Again, my apologies.

Suzanne.




> ----- Original Message -----
> From: uabalalaikas
> To: AZBalalaikaOrch@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:02 AM
> Subject: [AZBalalaikaOrch] 20th Annual Tucson Folk Festival
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> The 20th Annual Tucson Folk Festival is in full swing this weekend
in
> Presidio Park behind the old (and new) courthouses in downtown
Tucson.
>
> Come on down for great music & booths.
>
> The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be playing many of our standard
> foot-stompin' gig tunes for a half hour on the Plaza Stage next to
> City Hall, beginning at 2:00pm Saturday.
>
> Come check it all out.