Archives for August 2008
Do not miss Balkan Beat Box in Portland : Friday, September 12th
23 August 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Balkan Beat Box will be playing in Portland at Dante’s on Friday, September 12th. The last time they were scheduled to play Portland they had to cancel, as they were held up by immigration issues at the Canadian border. We won’t have to worry about that happening this time, as they are coming up through [...]
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Anjali has some things to say
23 August 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Click here to read DJ Anjali’s online interview with the Willamette Week. She’s not afraid of Anglo-Saxon words either.
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Do Not Miss Maraca in Portland : Thursday, September 25th
16 August 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Go see Maraca! Years ago I went to a Portland State University Summer concert event in the South Park blocks featuring the band Maraca from Cuba. Lead flautist Orlando “Maraca” Valle’s group blew my mind. I have not seen a better Latin band since. I was so impressed I paid an exorbitant amount to see [...]
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Saturday. August 9th 2008 Part I : PLayground Fixtures
15 August 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 was a busy day. Anjali, E3 and I were a part of the all-day Playground Fixtures DJ event put on by the Fix and Upper Playground in Irving Park. We had an hour and fifteen minute set to split in the middle of the day. It was quite [...]
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Oh Yeah, and we opened for the Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar in NYC
8 August 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
8/8/08
I couldn’t find my journal with notes on our New York trip when I was writing the last blog post and I wondered what I was forgetting to put in my account. How about the fact that we opened for the world’s greatest Serbian brass band? Funny I would forget to mention that. [...]
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NYC Adventures
6 August 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
8/1/08
While I am always aware of how much I blow off while I am in NYC, either because of conflicting events, or simply a lack of energy or motivation, I did manage to check out a few things while I was there. Saturday Anjali, JD and I went to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to watch [...]