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Boban Markovic Orkestar at Cork School of Music

The Boban Markovic Orkestar played at the Cork School of Music on Saturday night. And what a show! I didn’t know what to expect as I had won the tickets on the mailing list of a new live music blog in Cork. Thanks Nicki!

Right from the start, the music was explosive and I just loved the tempo changes throughout each piece of music. The crowd seemed to consist of quite a lot of non-Irish people, who were very familiar with the music, some of whom could not contain themselves and started dancing almost from the beginning of the night. By the end of the show, the front of the Curtis Auditorium in the School of Music was full of ecstatic dancing, a lot of which appeared to be traditional eastern European.

The Triskel Art website have a blurb about how the Boban Markovich Orkestar used to compete at an annual festival in the Serbian town of Guca, interestingly described as a mixture of the Willie Clancy Festival in Miltown Malbay and the Puck Fair, but because of their dominance they do not compete anymore.

There are quite a few more photos in the full set on Flickr.

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