Balkan spice

Paprika Balkanicus will play at Le Quecumbar next Sunday. And – omigod – Fanfare Ciocarlia and the famous and famously hard-to-see Esma Redzepova at the Barbican on 30 May.

Is this how musicians should be paid? Savas Zurnaci at a wedding. He’ll be playing at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 20 July!