San Francisco Tamburitza
Festival
February 17 & 18, 2007
featuring
Tamburaski Orkestar Momci from Detroit, MI.
At the Croatian American Cultural Center of San Francisco
60 Onondaga Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
for more information
Phone: (510) 649-0941
Visit their web site http://www.slavonicweb.org/cacc.html
WOW!!! What a peformance by Momci!!
Here is what Tom Yeseta said about the San Francsico Tamburitza Extravaganza!!
Saturday night's dance began with a jam session including musicians
from Momci, Yeseta Bros., Sidro, Slavonian Traveling Band, and Novi
Stari Tamburasi, playing in the center of the hall and surrounded by
kolo dancers...
Sunday's program began with a presentation by Mark Forry on the transition
of the tamburica from solo instrument to orchestral instrument; Ken
Kosovec led an orchestra that included Ken, Dennis, David and Peter
Kosovec, Dario Barisic, Tom and John Yeseta and Mark Forry, demonstrating
music composed or arranged for (large) tamburica orchestra. They played
Romansa u G dur (Njikos), Izador Bajic Suite 2 (Vukosavljev), Vu plavem
trnaci (Prejac), and Sunrise, Sunset (arr. Pavlekovich).
Next the six-man tambura orchestra from San Jose, Sidro, performed.
This group usually presents Dalmatian and zabavna repertoire, but surprised
us this year with Slavonian...
They were followed by Momci: Ken, Dennis, Dave, Pete, and Dario...
Then came the fifteen-member St. Anthony Orchestra, which performed:
Savica koracnica, Kaj, Dodji u Kastela, Ja sam mladi Dalmatinac, Bunjevacko
momacko kolo, Bere cura plav jorgovan, Kraj Vrbasa, U Stambulu na Bosporu,
Tuzna je nedjelja, and Pjesma Zabrebu.
Dance sets followed the program, and eventually all adjourned to the
bar. You know what happened there...