Sunday 12 Sep 2010

Doors open at 18.00, Le QuecumBar, 42-44 Battersea High Street, London SW11 3HX; Tel. 020 7787 2227
Food available until 22.00; all tables allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating.
Tickets: £12 from www.quecumbar.co.uk, www.wegottickets.com, or £15 on the door.

Must see amazing Balkan toe-tapping, hand-clapping mayhem from 6 virtuosos: Bogdan Vacarescu – violin, Milos Milivojevic – accordion, Zivorad Nikolic – accordion, Vladimir Strkalj – guitar, James Opstad – bass and Rastko Rasic – percussion.

Get ready, hang onto your seats, the sizzling revamped Paprika are burning the town. From Romania, Serbia and the UK, with a generous serving of musical minestrone, with ingredients from Eastern European traditional, Balkan, Gypsy and classical music. They have graced the stages of the Royal Festival Hall, Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival, Secret Gardens, Edinburgh fringe, Exit and many others. Regulars of WOMAD with concerts in UK, Spain, Abu Dhabi, WOMADelaide and more.

More on Paprika, including a nice serving of hot tunes, at www.paprikamusic.com.