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1 Their music is famously euphoric. Their riotous live shows are packed with hot brass-driven melodies. 100-mile-an-hour polkas. seductive waltzes. driving percussion and roguish charm. They‘ll make you grin from ear to ear on the night. and they'll put you in a good mood for a week.
2 Their singer Sincero Minimo. He‘s a sweatband—wearing calypso crooner; an unstoppable hit with the ladies: and a legend in his own mind.
3 They‘re big in the Czech Republic. They made their national TV debut on the Czech version of Richard and Judy. Consequently. their gig at the country's biggest music festival, Colours of Ostrava, was a complete sell-out. with fans filling the streets outside and mobbing their tour bus. Even The Happy Mondays (also playing at Colours) turned up to check them out. But, fame and influence wasn't enough to blag The Happy Mondays into the packed venue. so Bez & Co had to be content with listening from outside.
4 Their trumpet player‘s only 12 years old. Boy-wonder trumpet genius Phil Philodopoulos's achingly beautiful trumpet solos can reduce an audience to tears or induce frenzied dancing whenever he puts trumpet to lips.
5 The Spiegeltent is their “spiritual home'. If ever there was a venue built for Orkestra del Sol, it‘s the lush, mirrored. cabaret surrounds of the Spiegeltent. They're back for the third year in a row with a brand new album and show. Experience the full force of Orkestra del Sol live during the Fringe. (Kat Adam)
I The Spiege/ Garden, 667 8940, 77 <2 78 Aug, 9.45pm; 29 Aug, 8pm, £72 (£10).
ACOUSTIC EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
Phoenix nights from Cowgate ashes
Although you won't be seeing her here. KT Tunstall provides the inspiration for this high-quality acoustic night. Tunstall's own 2001 Acoustic Extravaganza gigs at the Gilded Saloon on the Cowgate lwhicli would go on to share a title With one of the singer's own alliuiiisi showed Paul Gilbody and Simon Kirby the kind of live show they WOLlld eventually like to promote.
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SONG AND CIVILIZATION Chants will be a fine thing
If a singing nun conjures up images of The Sound of Music or Sister Act, then it’s time to get real and listen to the exquisite beauty of Sister Marie Keyrouz. Appearing as part of the ElF’s fascinating Song and Civilization series, the Lebanese-born Catholic is a perfect example of the 2008 Festival theme of artists without borders. Indeed, the five concerts together make up a choral microcosm of its aim to look afresh at 21 st century Europe, where its borders are and how the arts, uniquely, can break them down.
‘The Edinburgh Festival was founded on the back of the Second World War,’ says artistic administrator Matthew Studded-Kennedy, ‘but Europe has changed radically since then. 2008 is as good a time as ever to look at that in the context of the choral traditions from the fringes of Europe.’
Apart from Sister Marie, who brings a long and ancient history of Christian chants from the eastern Catholic church, the series also embraces music from Turkey, Georgia and Corsica. ‘We had to do the music of ltri Efendi,’ says Studded-Kennedy. ‘He is the composer to Turkey and the Ottoman empire that Bach is to Europe.’ Not a lot of his music survives and the Kudsi Erguner Ensemble’s interpretation, with its colourful, upbeat percussion, is renowned for its authenticity.
One of the oldest choral traditions in the world is that of Georgia. ‘It is very ancient, but fresh to our ears and, in common with the Corsicans’ music, is very much a living tradition’ says Studded-Kennedy, ‘The songs are handed down the generations, some of them contained within small villages. It is real folk music. The Georgians and the Corsicans both have amazing harmonies and they will touch you immediately after you hear them.’
Perhaps particularly representative of the Festival’s theme is ‘Chant Wars’, a programme in which two of Europe’s most innovative ensembles specialising in medieval music come together to explore the political and musical frictions between different styles of Gregorian chant in Medieval Europe. As Studded-Kennedy says, ‘It encapsulates the whole of our Festival programme in a nutshell.’ (Carol Main)
I Greyfriars Kirk, 4 73 2000. l 7— 75 Aug, 5.45pm, £7 7.
their own gigs in the Saloon. before the destruction of that venue in the fire of December 2002 necessitated a move to Medina. They've been taking over the basement here regularly ever since and have also been coaxing some of the City's finest local bands to get involved With the acoustic goings-on. And you can too. by checking out .lill Jackson (ex-Speedway). Aiiiplilico. Azadeii and more on 12 Aug. or Found. Chris Bradley ipictured). Douglas Kay and Chris Hara on 19 Aug. (DaVid Pollock) I Medina 8. Negociaols. 22:3 (5313, I2