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Article: Everything's in the mix ; Folk band from Poland explores traditional sounds with unexpected twists
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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With a hearty laugh, Maja Kleszcz acknowledges that if the
headline over this story used the phrase "Polish folk music," many
people would quickly turn the page.
But the 24-year-old cellist and frontwoman for the Warsaw Village
Band hopes people will come to tonight's show at the Somerville
Theatre with open minds.
"This music is very pure and barbarian," Kleszcz said on the
phone before a concert in Minneapolis last week. "The folk music is
important as an example of how we can take inspiration from the past
and incarnate it with new life, new styles. With a mixing of ideas I
think you create a kind of global continuity of music - an
infinity."
The youthful six-member group has been taking ...