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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!

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