Top gypsy jazz band set to play Edinvillie Community Hall, outside Aberlour in Moray
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A WORLD-CLASS “gypsy” folk band from London visits Moray next month — and a rural community came together to make it happen.
The Budapest Café Orchestra draw on a wide range of influences, including Django Reinhardt-style jazz, Eastern European folk music, Scottish traditional music — and even film scores.
They are set to deliver a concert offering a new perspective on well-known tunes, along with a heaping of humour, at Edinvillie Community Hall on Saturday, May 25.
The next in the hall’s series of music nights, tickets for the concert can be purchased by emailing Edinvillie Community Hall Council at tickets@edinvillie.co.uk, through their Facebook page, or by visiting The Gather’n cafe in Aberlour.
Chairperson of the Edinvillie Community Hall Committee Pat Shanks said she was delighted to have secured the band, and hoped to have more than 120 in the crowd for the event
She added: “We are so lucky we got them on a Saturday night”.
The band, fronted by multi-instrumentalist Christian Garrick, recently recorded a fun reworking of Kraftwerk classic Tour de France while on tour in Scotland:
Their visit to Edinvillie, in between dates in Dunkeld and Rogart, comes as part of the The Budapest Cafe Orchestra’s Scotialand tour.
Edinvillie’s music nights returned earlier this year, after local band The Rinnes Rollers took to the stage to raise money for the hall.
Pat said: “That was a fantastic night at the hall, and afterwards we just thought: ‘There is something missing from the hall.’
“So we decided to try and get live music back at the hall.”
Other successful music nights this year have seen Edinburgh bluegrass outfit the Homecoming String Band and singer songwriter Adam Holmes make the trip to Edinvillie.
About the Homecoming String Band’s concert, Pat said: “It was amazing, it was just great.
“The band just absolutely loved it, and they said: ‘We will come back any time.’”
