Slovenian Musical Icon Vlado Kreslin in Washington, DC

 

Slovenian Musical Icon Vlado Kreslin will perform in Washington, DC on Monday, March 30, 2009. The event will take place in Busboys and Poets, Langstone Room, 14th Street NW, Washington, DC, at 9:00 p.m. The admission is free.

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    I prefer traditional music, whatever its origin. Other music is not as interesting or exiting, since it derives from derivatives. I really like Vlado Kreslin's approach. - Goran Bregović

    Vlado Kreslin is the Slovenian "Bob Dylan". He is immmensely popular in Slovenia. His songs have been used as the basis for novels and films. Scott McCaughey (R.E.M.) introduced me to his music, having discovered Kreslin's music when he opened for R.E.M. this past summer in Slovenia. - Chris Eckman of The Walkabouts who have recorded their own version of Vlado's song Tista črna kitara (That Black Guitar) on their album The Train Leaves At Eight.

    Kreslin is something of a national institution in Slovenia, a singer and songwriter who is also responsible for a reawakening of interest in older traditional ballads and songs. Martin Krpan split after opening for Bob Dylan in Ljubljana in 1991. It seems his place in Slovenian culture is an amalgam of Christy Moore, John Williamson and Jacques Brel. - The Camberra Times, Tuesday, February 17, 1998, Graham McDonald

    When a person listens to some of Kreslin's songs, it may seem that folk, blues and rock was invented by Slovenians. This is, of course far from th thruth, but he is so good that the songs are musically universal yet still slovenian in spirit . - Aleksander Dragaš Jutarnji list, Zagreb, 4.3.2004

    I thought his music was marvellous and the performance of it all a magical fusion of so many Mitteleuropean motifs, that it put me in mind of everything from the films of Emir Kusturica to the books of Bohumil Hrabal. - Richard Flanagan, Australian writer

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