[NEohioPAL]Turli Tava: Macedonian Music in Cleveland at The Beachland Ballroom 6/29/01

[Walter Mahovlich]

TURLI TAVA
Friday, June 29th  9PM
Concert & Dance Party
at
The Beachland Ballroom
15711 Waterloo Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44110

Admission: $8 in advance, $10 at the door
for tickets call: 216-383-1124 or buy online at
http://www.beachlandballroom.com/


On Friday, June 29 TURLI TAVA brings the music of Macedonia - its
suprising rhythms, soaring melodies, and rich weave of cultures - to the
Beachland Ballroom.  Featuring Bitola native Sasho Dukovski on accordion
and Cleveland's own Walt Mahovlich on reeds, the band also draws on the
talents of two veterans of the New York Balkan  scene, drummer Jerry
Kisslinger and guitarist Adam Good.  The concert and dance party starts
at 9 PM, Friday June 29 at the Beachland Ballroom 15711 Waterloo Road in
Cleveland.  Admission is $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Call
216-383-1124 for tickets.

                    Turli Tava
                    Sasho Dukovski - accordion, keyboard, vocals
                    Walt Mahovlich - clarinet, sax, gajda
                    Adam Good - guitar, oud, dzhumbush, kaval
                    Jerry Kisslinger - tapan, dumbek, percussion
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More About TURLI TAVA:
TURLI TAVA  takes its name from the meat, okra, and vegetable stew, the
Macedonian gumbo, that
accordionist/ vocalist Sasho Dukovski ate back home in Bitola.  Through
that city, along the
ancient trade road called the Via Egnatia, history brought waves of
travelers and settlers – Slavic,
Albanian, Turkish, Jewish, Vlach, Greek, Romany – the unique cultural
blend of Macedonia, the
mix reflected in Turli Tava's repertoire.

Turli Tava's music evokes both meditative ritual and creative surprise.
A tune tends to tell a
story. It may gain in tempo or change rhythm with a logic rooted in
Macedonian dance traditions
and years of playing together.  Or it may erupt into a wide-open solo,
with an improvisational elan
and ensemble freedom that would feel just right in New Orleans.  Rooted,
free, traditional, always
new –Turli Tava is bonafide Balkan gumbo!

About The Perfomers:
SASHO DUKOVSKI  first learned Macedonian music at the knee of his
grandfather, a traditional
clarinetist, and from his parents, professional singers in Europe and
the US.  From age seven, he
lived in two worlds–Cleveland and Bitola--and soon was performing in
both.  He graduated from
Bitola's music school and is a veteran of the five-night-a-week hotel
and restaurant gigs,
weddings, military send-offs, and other private parties that, on a good
night, fill Bitola and the
surrounding villages with music.  He played with Heraklea, Elita,
Pelagoniski Biseri, and many
other well known Macedonian groups and also accompanied the vocal duo
Selimova/Zhelcheski ,
Zoran Josifovski, and clarinetist Slave Naumovski.

While still in high school, Sasho began playing with Turli Tava's
clarinetist, WALT MAHOVLICH, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist in a
variety of Eastern European styles.  Walt has played for
Macedonian and other East European communities since his teenage years,
originally with
traditional musicians from the Lake Prespa region.  He has appeared on
concert stages throughout
North America and Europe and currently leads the East European folk
group Harmonia.  His
Harmonia colleague ADAM GOOD, adds guitar, dzhumbush and ud to the Turli
Tava mix.  A
graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Adam is a founding member of
Sideshow, which takes
an improvisational approach to the music of Charles Ives, and performs
regularly with the Kolevi
6, the Izgori Macedonian Folk ensemble, and other Balkan groups in the
New York City area.
On tapan and tarabuka is JERRY KISSLINGER, founding member of Zlatne
Uste Balkan Brass, who has been drumming for ethnic and folk dance
communities since the age of fifteen, specializing in Macedonian dance
rhythms.  He has appeared with the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble and Pece
Atanasovski and was musical director of the George Tomov Ensemble
Orchestra for its Carnegie hall concert.  From church halls to concert
halls, he and Walt have played Macedonian music together since the mid
1980s.

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For further information about Turli Tava contact:
Walt Mahovlich, 2176 West Blvd., Cleveland OH 44102
Phone: (216) 281-8727, email:  mahovlich at juno.com