The Acapella Festival: Perunika Trio

Friday March 5th
Queen's Hall, Narberth. Doors open 7.30, show starts 8pm.

After the superb performance of the London Bulgarian Choir at last year's festival, we're excited to present some of the leading exponents of Eastern European small-group singing, the Perunika Trio. The Perunika Trio formed in 2005, brought together by their love and fascination for the dramatic beauty of Bulgarian folk music, where pagan past, church slavonic tradition and five centuries of Ottoman rule meet to form a unique musical and cultural landscape. The Perunika Trio also perform songs from Russian and Macedonia, exploring the full range of styles from the fascinating Slavic musical tradition. Eugenia Georgieva, the musical director of the trio, will lead a workshop on Saturday 6th - see the Acapella Festival workshop page for full details...

"The Perunika Trio show that you don�t have to be a vast choir to create that haunting, keening sound. Their pure voices interweave in an extraordinary range of vocal effects, and while the members are all cosmopolitan urbanites long resident in Britain, you�d never guess it from the easy way they pitch into these songs of the Bulgarian forests and plains. Rustic, without being overly romantic,(...) combining a madrigal-like delicacy with a brooding Eastern Orthodox spirituality."
Mark Hudson, The Daily Telegraph

Tickets for this event will be £10 or £8 for Span Arts members and concessions. You can buy tickets on 01834 869323