Black Sea Hotel is Brooklyn’s own Balkan Vocal Orchestra. Comprised of 4 American Women, Black Sea Hotel serenades audiences with old world melodies uniting their voices in vibrant, haunting music. With repertoire that includes straight-from-the-field village-style tunes, dance-songs, and traditional songs rendered anew, the voices dance through the wild terrain of the Balkans preserving the unique color of each region they inhabit. Whether pitted against one another in close harmonies, or joined together in ethereal arrangements, Black Sea Hotel incants ancient stories to her guests, transporting them to Bulgaria and beyond. This year, Black Sea Hotel has performed at venues such as Drom, Zlatne Uste's annual Golden Festival, Washington DC's "Balktoberfest" and as openers for Balkan Beat Box at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this lay/poem-come-song on myspace -
2 of 230, walkaboutsverse.741.com: WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
