The Berkeley Balkan Bacchanal presents Fanfare Zambaleta & Disciples of Markos at the Starry Plough Pub. Doors at 8:00pm; Show at 9:00pm; Admission: $10+; Kitchen closes at 10:00 pm (ages 21+ thereafter).

Berkeley Balkan Bacchanal is a concert series at the Starry Plough Pub featuring other-worldy talent of musicians from the Bay Area performing Eastern European folk music on the second Friday of the month. A hub in the Bay Area Balkan music scene, the bacchanal provides a platform for a community of performers, folk dancers, regular attendants and new friends to revel together every month since 2011.

Fanfare Zambaleta was incubated in the Zambaleta Music and Dance School in San Francisco and has since hit the streets as a full-fledged 10-piece juggernaut of a band playing exciting Romani, Serbian, Macedonian, and Greek Brass music with passion and dedication and featuring some of the Bay Area's most exciting young players and seasoned veterans. This performance will feature Greg Jenkins, alto sax, clarinet, vocals; Peter Bonos, trumpet; Joseph Friedman, alto sax; Rachel MacFarlane, tenor horn; Andrew Cohen, euphonium and accordion; Evan Stuart, sousaphone & Ivan Velev, tapan. Fanfare Zambaleta will be joined by some very special surprise guests.

Disciples of Markos
The Disciples play in the style of Markos Vamvakaris, the most famous songwriter, singer and the heaviest, most stoned-out bouzouki player of the 1930s, as well as his contemporaries such as Delias, Batis, Peristeris, Hatzichristos, Tsitsanis and more.
The Disciples of Markos are based in Oakland, California, and since 2004 have been dedicated to spreading the beautiful songs from the Golden Age of Rebetika.