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Member Since: 12/02/2008
Band Website: www.balalaikalondon.co.uk
Band Members: Nigel Austen; Bayan. Justin Bateman; Balalaika, Mandolin. Adam Gaiman; Guitar. Lucie Holden; Trumpet, Percussion. Mick Prendergast; Double Bass, Bass Balalaika.
Influences: Rostov Balalaika, Terem Quartet , Klezmer Conservatory Band, Klezmatics, Fiddler On The Roof, Vodka, Areoflot Peanuts, Vodka again, maybe too much vodka and Dr Zhivago seen through cracked spectacles after drinking vodka
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Kent House Allotments 17.5.9

  Once or twice a year we do a charity performance on behalf of the NSPCC at the Kent House Allotment Gardens in Sydenham.   Often this is the first hot weekend of the year and the beginni...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 12:35:00 GMT

Woking Festival of Culture 9.5.9

Peacocks Walk - Woking 9.5.9 An early start for this one, as a four piece of Lucie,Nigel,Justin and Adam took to the stage at 11.45am in the middle of the town centre as part of the Woking Festi...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 12:03:00 GMT

Funeral service 19.2.09

Justin and Adam played for a moving funeral service in the grounds of a stately home in West Sussex. The lady of the manor had been of Russian/Estonian extraction and was buried next to her late husba...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:24:00 GMT

Ruskin House, Croydon 25.01.09

Holocaust Memorial Concert Ruskin House 25.1.09 Ruskin House in Croydon is one of our regular venues. We often play at their summer jazz and blues festival, occasionally play at the folk club there an...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:46:00 GMT

The Mercer, Threadneedle street

A trio of Adam,Justin and Mick played at The Mercer on Threadneedle Street for an annual party for a group of financiers who we played for last December too. A 6pm start in EC3 is never much fun to or...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:51:00 GMT

A wedding in Oxford 25.11.08

Review coming soon!
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:30:00 GMT

A band wedding! 11.11.08

A band wedding in DulwichI am sure that our resident squeeze-boxer will not mind me mentioning that he and Mrs. Nigel tied the knot after a brief 22 year romance. Of course this called for a musical c...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:37:00 GMT

A 70th birthday party 14.9.8

A 70th birthday celebration!On sunday the trio played for a private party in Biggin Hill, Kent for Jean's 70th birthday party. The band, in a different incarnation over 10 years ago had played for a w...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:05:00 GMT

Wedding in Wimbledon 8.9.8

Another first for Balalaika, as this was the first wedding we have ever played on a monday! Set in the magnificent Cannizaro House next to Wimbledon Common, it was for the betrothal of a Russian bride...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:15:00 GMT

Balalaika live in Westminster - Korobushka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6V-N4qZJZ8 Balalaika - Westminster Cathedral Hall April 2008
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:27:00 GMT