Berkeley Balkan Bacchanal at The Starry Plough Pub Presents: Helios Greek Band (10 pm) & Barrio Arcush (8pm)
Tickets: $20 at the door. Cash or Venmo accepted.
All ages before 10 pm. 21+ after 10 pm when kitchen closes.
Food, beer and wine available from the bar.
The Helios Band is one of the most versatile Greek bands in Northern California, playing traditional styles: Rembetika, Laika, Nissiotika, Demotika and Modern Greek music. Helios has performed at Greek Festivals throughout the western U.S. and has also performed at celebrity weddings in the Bay Area (S.F. Giants' Hunter Pence's Wedding) and in Big Sur (Spotify founder Sean Parker's Wedding). The outstanding musicianship and vocals of the Helios Band members make each performance a truly special and memorable event. The band is also performs at for weddings, baptisms, festivals, parties and concerts.
Barrio Arcush is a project born in the Bay Area from the need to draw bridges between musical styles that are much closer to each other than what appears when looking at the map. What do Balkan Roma ("gypsy") music and manouche jazz have in common with Latin music? Barrio Arcush is a collaboration between Marco Ghezzo of Arcush (violin, Italy) and Javi Jimenez of Barrio Manoushe (guitar, Spain). They leap with virtuosity from one style to another to land in the original compositions, a sort of traditional music from a country that doesn't exist... yet!