Eltham World Music Cafe

17/06/2020

Melbourne-based band Samassin team up with poet Sandy Jeffs. Renowned composer Kirsty Pittman is English-born and Melbourne-based but has interests extending far beyond her immediate heritage. With an interest in Middle Eastern music, Pittman has lent on Turkish and Arabic drum rhythms and additive....

15/05/2020

Samassin were to play the Eltham Boite event this month along, in an original content themed show with local poet Sandy Jeffs. The whole concert will now be streamed online on the 21st June. Read about Samassin and Kirsty Pittman here in this interview for Australian Jazz.

"I am greatly inspired by all of these ethnic influences that are already here in Melbourne. This patchwork is inspiring and Samassin's music here is global."

02/04/2020

Next month the scheduled Eltham Boite event on the 8th of May; Samassin will now be streaming online. Tickets available in event listed below!
Samassin's music is rich with exotic melodies and grooves, each piece a vivid and emotional journey. The sound is richly textured and the members play with passion and energy. Written by Eltham-based composer Kirsty Pittman and beautifully interpreted by the band, these enigmatic highly detailed compositions draw on the influences of jazz, contemporary art music and traditional rhythmic and melodic ideas from the Middle-East and India. The band are also skilled improvisors and each composition also has an improvisatory element.

Here is a Samassin teaser!

New album 'SIN SAMAS' Official Release 10th November 2018 Album recorded at the Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, Collingwood samassin.com facebook.com/samassin...

25/06/2019

The Boite has been enriching lives for the past 40 years, as Melbourne's iconic world music presenter.
Since the very first concert in 1979, The Boite has been a place for communication, belonging and nurturing. New arrivals with different languages and customs, find welcome and recognition.
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30/04/2019

This Friday!

Nostalgia Melbourne, Australia, 2018 Composer Thomas Lorenzo Fernandez Released by TL Productions: C 1004 The feeling of Nostalgia. Should we feel something ...

03/04/2019

La Busca will transport a time of grand romance and passionate eloquence to Eltham this Friday!!
La Busca is a Melbourne based tango six piece ensemble, backing the charming and captivating Argentinean singer and tango dancer, Juan Veron, who hails from the thriving milonga scene of Buenos Aires.

Featuring guest dancers Phoebe Grace and Ian Flores!

02/04/2019

Behind the scenes at a La Busca rehearsal!
Book now it's this Friday!

12/12/2018

Boite Enews - World Music Open Mic - 2019 Boite Singers' Festival - Ticket Giveaway - https://mailchi.mp/boite/boite-enews-oct31-2572997