The Alex Hand Band is riding the wave of its first full-length album, 2018's Traders of the Lost Arts, with performances featuring songs from this record as well as an upcoming one. The music is a mix of Romanian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian traditional folk dance tunes with original compositions inspired by years of playing these styles and studying music in Eastern Europe.
FEATURING:
Alex Hand - guitar
Gabe Case - bass
Kevin Gerzevitz - accordion, keys
Isaac Schwartz - drums
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Alex Hand Band: A Balkan Jazz Quartet
With a setlist that ranges from Bulgarian wedding tunes to hot club jazz, the Alex Hand Band mines the common ground between swing and Eastern European folk dance music–the soundtrack of Western music moving across Balkan borders and being changed by European village music.
Featuring:
Alex Hand - guitar
Kevin Gerzevitz - keys, accordion
Gabe Case - bass
Valentino - percussion
Alex Hand, who has traveled to the Balkans to study folk music, is involved with various projects in the Bay Ar...
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