Yiddish Twist Orchestra - UK Tour February 2013.
Friday, January 18, 2013
This veteran multi cultural East London band will tour the UK in February 2013. Details attached.
Mike Gavin has forwarded the following press release relating to the forthcoming tour;
Making Tracks Season 3
YIDDISH TWIST ORCHESTRA : 11-26 Feb 2013
For a short while in the late 50s and early 60s, London was home to ?der shvitz’, the dirtiest most deliriously danceable music of all ? a hallucinating mix of surf rock guitar, West Indian calypso, mambo, skiffle and Jewish folk melodies. When it crossed the Atlantic in diluted form as the twist, the music’s roots remained largely forgotten. The Yiddish Twist Orchestra revive this one-off cultural collision, paying homage to the genius of its beatnik founder Willy Bergman, lost hero of the sex n drugs British music revolution, who got the slums - and salons - on both sides of the water dancing to the pounding Yiddish beat. Featuring Europe’s retro king Natty Bo on vocals (Ska Cubano), this all-star East End band’s irresistible, bold and brassy musical fusions guarantee to have us all doing the Yiddish twist.
11 Feb Bury St Edmunds, The Apex
12 Feb London Rich Mix
13 Feb Bristol Colston Hall
15 Feb Swansea Pontardawe Arts Centre
16 Feb Poole Lighthouse
19 Feb Cambridge The Junction
20 Feb Milton Keynes The Stables
21 Feb Birmingham mac
24 Feb Gateshead The Sage Gateshead
26 Feb York NCEM