“..the finest purveyors of Eastern European gypsy music this side of a Lada scrap heap!” Times

Christian Garrick and Budapest Cafe Orchestra take to the stage at the Palace Theatre on Friday 24th March 2023 at 1930pm.  Refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired boutique orchestra play Balkan and Russian traditional gypsy & folk flavoured music in their own fresh and surprising way.

BCO have won legions of fans with their magical and infectious performances. Admired for their artful distillations of masterpieces by the great Romantic composers their infectious music will get into your veins and stay there forever. BCO play a blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia, Klezmer laments, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas.

“AMAZING last night! We were part of a wild, often haunting, always exquisite musical conversation with the BCO at the Buxton Opera House. Stupendously fantastic!”

“Not so much a band name as a whole genre of its own, Budapest Café Orchestra embraces an encyclopaedia of music and mischief.” SCOTSMAN

“The music is magic in their hands.” Sean Rafferty BBC Radio 3

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The Palace Theatre Paignton