Balkan Shout Out

"The Balkan Shout Out" is a fundraising event to benefit the EEFC (East European Folklife Center). The EEFC has been a home to Balkan music, dance and culture in United States for over 25 years. The Balkan Shout Out, has been conceived to do just that: give a shout of thanks out to those who have helped in nurturing New York's thriving Balkan cultural community.
This year we will be featuring the hip-swiveling, dancefloor-filling, rural party music of Brazil's northeastern states of Forro in the Dark a NYC-based Brazilian ex-pats. Raya Brass Band does it on the dance floor, mashing up the music of Eastern Europe with American dance grooves, they will grace us with their exuberant Balkan brass dance music. Eva Primack will be debuting with her brand new brass band sure to get you dancing.