Youngstown’s Simply Slavic festival will have a watch party for an episode of a PBS series focused on the event. “The World According to Polka” is produced by Western Reserve Media and hosted by Jake ...

An American black-music take on the Balkan brass band does a bit of Ellington/Strayhorn exotica. It totally works in spite of, or maybe because... Songs We Love: Slavic Soul Party!, 'Bluebird Of Delhi ...

PLATTSBURGH — The genesis of the name Slavic Soul Party! was band leader Matt Moran’s machinations as he was trying to create a new music and a new band. “That combined both the wonderful improvisers ...

Sometimes we Americans think we invented get down music. The Rolling Stones in The British Invasion called it “getting your ya yas out.” They did and still do base their hard rock sound on fundamental ...

PUTNEY — The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series is thrilled to announce the return of Slavic Soul Party! to the Bandwagon stage, on Aug. 9, at The Putney Inn Field, 57 Putney Landing Road, Putney.

“Brass bands are inherently subversive in America,” declares Slavic Soul Party bandleader and bass-drummer Matt Moran, between bites of his portobello sandwich at Korzo, the Hungarian outpost in Park ...

Slavic Soul Party is a New York brass band that takes inspiration from Balkan and gypsy music, but also funk and New Orleans traditions. Its members play with punk-rock energy and have won fans all ...

In the late 1990s, visionary percussionist Matt Moran founded Slavic Soul Party, a brass band designed to stretch the boundaries between Eastern and Western European traditional music until those ...