08/09 Season: Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra
West Coast Debut
Fri, June 19 at 8pm; Sat, June 20 at 8pm Royce Hall $70, 54, 42, 28 ($15 UCLA students)
With a lively ensemble that includes a 4-piece classical string orchestra, a 6-man choir, and two Bulgarian female vocalists, Goran Bregovic & his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra are perhaps the largest, most diverse and most irresistible world music group to hit the Royce Hall stage. A household name in his native Balkans for more than three decades as a film composer and rock musician, Bregovic has been broadening his appeal around the world with his ecstatic, eclectic and charismatic style of gypsy dance music. The Spanish paper El Pais described the group as one of the most beautiful symphonies of Old World Europe [Bregovic] creates the most breath-taking music on this continent intense, vigorous, colorful, passionate, exotic, fascinating.
