This weekend features two performances of the Arizona Balalaika
Orchestra, "Russian Magic", featuring visiting domra master Tamara
Volskaya.  Also joining the orchestra will be the Russyny Dancers and
Sons of Orpheus Male Choir of Tucson. A great show is planned. More
Details at http://www.azbalalaika.org

The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra is gearing up for its Fall 2007
season, and the following dates & times have just been finalized.
Come join us for the fun!

Friday Oct. 5, 8:00 PM, approx 1 hr show,
Slavic Festival at St. Melanie's
1212 N Sahuara Ave 85712

Saturday Oct. 13, 3:30 PM, approx 25 min show,
Tucson Meet Yourself
Presidio Park, City Hall Stage

Saturday Oct. 27, time 4:00 PM, approx 50 min show
Oro Valley Arts Festival
Riverfront Park, 551 W. Lambert Lane, Oro Valley

And of course, our big annual concert is set for January 26th & 27th,
at Pima Community College West, featuring visiting master of the
domra, Tamara Volskaya http://www.tamaravolskaya.com/tamara.html, as
well as our own beloved Kalinka Russian Dancers and The Sons of
Orpheus Men's Choir.

Mark your calendars, and join us for the fun!

See you there,

Arizona Balalaika Orchestra
http://www.azbalalaika.org

Greetings and Happy New Year!

Time for a new Arizona Balalaika Orchestra Concert!

Our new upcoming annual gala concert is just a week away, Feb. 3rd &
4th, 2007, with wonderful new music and dances planned, and featuring
visting guest artists - master musicians Alexander Tsygankov and Inna
Shevchenko of Moscow, performing on domra and piano.

Rehearsals are once again promising what a terrific show this will be!

Tickets available at the PCC Box Office at 520-206-6986,
The Folk Shop at 2525 N Campbell Ave,
or Instrumental Music at 7063 E Speedway Blvd.

Showtimes & more details available at http://www.azbalalaika.org

Thank you for your continuing interest and support, and see you next week!

Hello, And many thanks to all who came to see and hear us at St.
Melany's Russian Festival last weekend.  It's already time to break
out those balalaikas, domras, and dancing shoes again, for the Tucson
Meet Yourself Festival.  The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra will be
playing on Sunday October 15th, 3PM, at the City Hall Stage in El
Presidio Park.  There are three stages running this year, so be sure
you come to the right one.  We're the stage closest to all the food
boothes!  Admission is free, so bring the family!

Hope to see you there,

Suzanne.

Heads up this weekend for the Arizona Balalaika Orchestra!

We'll be playing a full hour set at St. Melany's Byzantine Catholic
Church Slavic Festival on Saturday Evening (10/7/06)at 8:00, with the
usual high kicking fun of the Kalinka Russian Dancersbelov.   For even
more slavic fun, arrive by 6 PM to see and hear our own beloved Bayan
Nina and her Ukranian Folk Ensemble Barvinok.

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Also, next weekend, on Sunday (10/15/06), we'll be playing a half-hour
set at the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival.  With maybe a dance or two
:-)   Time and stage to be announced.

If you can't make those, some nifty new .mp3 files have been uploaded
to the Az Balalaika web site at
http://www.azbalalaika.org/listen.html

and of course, the dancers' video at
http://www.azbalalaika.org/watch.html

More on next week's performance later.  Just be there this week!  Or
watch our front page at http://www.azbalalaika.org

Thanks for coming,

Suzanne.

The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra's next big performance is this
Thursday night, November 17th at 7PM, at the West Recreation Center,
1111 S. Via Arcoiris, Green Valley, AZ (520) 625-0288. We will be
performing with world reknown domra meister, Alexander Tsygankov, and
his lovely wife and world reknown pianist accompanist Inna Shevchenko.

Tickets at the door are $16.

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> 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.

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.

Are you not thrilled by football?  Do you really care who wins?  Well
neither do we, because we're right where we have the best time of all
--- on stage for you,the audience!

Come to the best Arizona Balalaika Orchestra concert ever, in
"Balalaikas Go Hollywood!", where we perform our favorite Hollywood
Russian numbers. (Yes, there are plenty!)   We will be joined, of
course, by the Sons of Orpheus Male Choir of Tucson, the Kalinka
Russian Dancers, fabulous visiting guest artists, and an all new
audio/video production.  Curtain goes up at 2:00 this afternoon.  You
can tivo that ole' football game.

Spectacular music, spectacular singing, spectacular dancing,
spectacular costumes, and we promise -- no wardrobe malfunctions.

Arizona Balalaika Orchestra

If you're looking for something to do on a Saturday night tonight,
come on down to the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival at Presideo Park.
There will be lots of ethnic food and music, and our own Arizona
Balalaika Orchestra and Kalinka Russian Dancers have the stage for a
half hour starting at 6PM.

See you there!

The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra is hosting this year's convention of
the Balalaika and Domra Association of America (BDAA), in Tucson, AZ,
July 26th through August 1st, 2004.   It is going to be outstandingly
fun!   For information, please visit our convention page at:

http://www.azbalalaika.org/convention.html

See you there!

Many thanks to all who participated in our wonderful recent Annual
Gala Concert of 2004: our Orchestra members, the Kalinka Russian
Dancers, the Sons of Orpheus Men's Chorus, visiting players and guest
soloists who travelled long distances to perform with us, and
especially, to you our friends and audience who make it all
worthwhile.

The orchestra and dancers hit the road for our next scheduled
performance, Sunday, March 7th at 4:00 PM, at Rio Verde Community
Church in Rio Verde, AZ, about 20 miles northeast of Phoenix.  (The
church is handling admission.)

Address:
Rio Verde Community Church
25419 N Danny Ln
RIO VERDE, AZ 85263 - 7141
(480) 471-7239

Map linked from our front page at http://www.azbalalaika.org

Our next Tucson appearance will be at the EMAT Fair at the Foothills
Mall, Sunday March 14 at 1:00 p.m. This will likely be a smaller
ensemble of our musicians and dancers, but will be a very lively half
hour program. Free to the public.

Hope to see you at one or both of these events!