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Saturday, January 13, 2018 Favoriting
Live from the Golden Fest - Brooklyn's Spectacular Balkan Bacchanal

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Select videos from Golden Fest 2014 (thanks to Noel Kropf )

It's our tenth annual live broadcast from Brooklyn's legendary Balkan and East European music and dance blowout! Golden Fest is a massive two night gathering of musicians, folk dance enthusiasts and fans held at the spectacular Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn's South Slope.

The festival kicks off with a multi-band dance party on Friday night January 12th. Then for the big event on Saturday night January 13th, some sixty bands will perform on five stages from 6 pm until the wee hours. We'll bring you Saturday night's early action live from the Grand Ballroom, center stage of this fabulous Balkan-inspired bacchanal.

Massive thanks to our illustrious engineer and tech director Irene Trudel and our volunteer crew:

Ian Aflano
Rob Christiansen
Will Dean
Joe Duffy (Board Op)
Adele Eisenstein
Katie Gentile
Rachel Herman
Kim Howie
Mark Koch
Micah Loewinger
Sylvia Naples
David Satkowski
Bryn Scharenberg
Jason Sigal
Tom Unish



This Week's Playlist:

Cocek Nation: Live from Golden Fest 2018 Favoriting (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Romashka (feat. Inna Barmash): Live from Golden Fest 2018 Favoriting (0:33:32 Pop-up)

Litvakus / Goyfriend: Live from Golden Fest 2018 Favoriting (1:10:06 Pop-up)

Gogofski: Live from Golden Fest 2018 Favoriting (1:45:38 Pop-up)

Alicia Svigals, Lauren Brody & Klezmer Mash: Live from Golden Fest 2018 Favoriting (2:23:53 Pop-up)





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Listener comments!

  6:02pm queems:

so psyched! i wanted to go, but i’m just too tired
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm Rob W:

Hi Queems, thanks everyone for listening!
  6:22pm queems:

sounds great so far!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm Bas NL:

Hi Rob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm Rob W:

Hi Bas, good evening everyone!
  6:44pm St Joe:

wery nice. tx for this Rob.
  7:00pm Circo Americano:

YesI Is a very nice!!! Long live The Fiddle!!!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm Bas NL:

Thanks Romashka! Hi Irene!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm Bas NL:

Livakus/ Goyfriend.. Nice! Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm Rob W:

This song is a Golden Fest standard - the late great Esma's "Caje Sukarije". (Apologies I'm not doing a song-by-song playlist today - not really possible.)
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm Bas NL:

And thanks Gogofski!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm Joe D.:

also a noted member of When People Were Shorter and Lived Near The Water!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm Smilty69:

Excellent show, Rob! I'm replaying it for my Serbian friend tomorrow.
  8:40pm DryEraser:

Omg, I'm drinking a bottle of Sobieski. OMG, this is awesome.
  8:41pm Drunken Creep:

What lovely sounds to discover after a long work day
  8:47pm DryEraser:

his and gifs of animals go so well together. OMG.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm Rob W:

Starting to reach critical mass on the Golden Fest ballroom dance floor - Circle Dance and Line Dance mayhem...
Avatar 8:52pm slugluv1313:

fantastic show!!! thank you Rob and Irene and everybody who puts this together every year - what fun!!!
(gotta go one of these years! but always end up working, or some other schedule conflict)
  8:52pm queems:

so great!!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm Bas NL:

Wish i was there! :D
Avatar 8:53pm slugluv1313:

what Bas NL said. :)
  8:53pm queems:

it makes me excited about my balkan heritage
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:55pm Bas NL:

Thanks Klezmer Mash! Thanks all for the great live coverage Rob and Irene!
  8:59pm queems:

woo macedonia
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm Bas NL:

Will you stay and record for later airing Rob?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm Rob W:

Bas, the answer is yes!
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