March 28, 2006
Director of Media Relations
413/542-8417

AMHERST, Mass.—Slavic Soul Party! will perform their “Balkan soul Gypsy funk” on Sunday, April 9, at 8 p.m. in the Friedmann Room in the Keefe Campus Center at Amherst College. A workshop and discussion will take place in the McCaffrey Room in the Keefe Campus Center at 4 p.m. Sponsored by the Global Sound Project of the President’s Initiative Fund at Amherst College, the show and discussion are free and open to the public.

Brash and strong as slivovitz, the musicians of Slavic Soul Party! have forged a virtuosic new brass band culture from the heart of Brooklyn, melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul. According to The New York Times, Slavic Soul Party! has “developed a reputation for delivering a good time.”

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