Blast those winter blues away with the mighty Moishe’s Bagel down at Mwldan on 25th February, 7.30pm. Moishe’s Bagel combines the energy and passion of Eastern European folk music with the excitement and soul of improvisation.
Boasting some of the best instrumentalists that Scotland has to offer (drawn from the likes of Salsa Celtica, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Celtic Feet, and Scottish National Jazz Orchestra), this will be a rip roaring, foot-stomping, jazz-inflected night of brilliant klezmer and Balkan music.
Moishe’s Bagel were formed in Edinburgh in 2003, when four of the band members met in a local tango outfit. With the recruitment of a percussion wizard to give a new twist to the klezmer/Balkan groove, the line up found an unbeatable mix. Not too concerned with authenticity (there are enough people doing that already), they let the interaction of their individual musical personalities create their own style; a sound that mixes klezmer, folk dance, jazz, eastern percussion and more, topped off with dazzling musicality and classical rigour. The result is a band which has the excitement of occasional improvisation, with an energy that keeps the music highly danceable, and visually and aurally exciting.
Veterans of the festival circuit, Moishe’s Bagel have played The Larmer Tree Festival, Sessiwn Fawr, Belfast Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Sheep Music, Orkney St Magnus Festival, The Small Nations Festival, Islay Jazz Festival and many more, including sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and the Famous Spiegeltent on the Edinburgh Fringe.
In 2008 Moishe’s Bagel were given a prestigious ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award at by the official newspaper of the Edinburgh Festival ‘for bringing their unique brand of music to the Jazz Festival and Fringe each year, and gaining consistently high marks from the ThreeWeeks reviewers’.
In August 2010 they released their long-awaited third album, ‘Uncle Roland’s Flying Machine’, with specially commissioned artwork by cartoonist Glen Baxter. The band has also been featured on Radio 3’s Late Junction, and has performed live sessions for Radio Scotland and RTE.
Highly danceable, the Bagel are equally at home jamming in a late night jazz den, grooving at a forest festival or enthralling a concert hall! Tickets are £13 (£11) and are available now from the box office on 01239 621200 or online at www.mwldan.co.uk. This event in Mwldan 2 will be part seated (upper part of auditorium), and cabaret style downstairs with tables and chairs and room for dancing.
