La MaMa ETC & Yara Arts Group invite you to:

A MUSICAL DIALOGUE WITH

BADMAHANDA

from Siberia

Wednesday, April 5, 2000 7:00 PM

BADMAHANDA AIUSHEYEVA is considered the best young singer of traditional Buryat songs. In 1996 she was awarded the coveted Golden Lark Certificate. She was born in China, but now lives in Ulan Ude, where she performs with the Badma Seseg Folk Ensemble. She worked with Yara Arts Group on Tsagaan Shubunnay Dunn during the summer of 1998 in Ulan Ude and on tour in the Buryat Aginsk Autonomous Region.

During the Musical Dialog our Buryat colleagues Erzhena Zhambalov, Sayan Zhambalov and Battuvshin from Ulan Ude, near Lake Baikal will perform traditional Buryat Mongolian songs with Badmahanda, play the morin khoor (or horse-head fiddle) and do throat singing. Then members of Yara Arts Group and friends Tristra Newyear (vocals), Julian Kytasty (bandura) and Ilya Temkin (guitar) and others will enter into a cross cultural musical dialogue with Badmahanda.

La MaMa Galleria

tickets $5 at box office 74 East 4^th St (between 2^nd & 3^rd Ave)

for info call 475-6474

also come see

CIRCLE

featuring traditional Buryat music, Mongolian throat singing & a Gypsy punk band

Siberian legends, shaman chants and post-Soviet reality intermingle in an outrageous look at a contemporary a wedding in Siberia where spirits whirl in wild round dance with the living. Then Gogol Bordello, a hot gypsy punk band, arrives to make sure everything goes wrong

created by Yara, Buryat artists & Gogol Bordello directed by Virlana Tkacz, music by Buryat composer Erzhena Zhambalov & Eugene Hutz, movement Igor Grigurko, design: Watoku Ueno, Rachel Comey, video Andrea Odezynska. With: Badmahanda Aiusheyeva, Battuvshin, Laura Biagi, Marina Celander, Yoko Hirayama, Allison Hiroto, Eugene Hutz, Akiko Kiuchi, Alexandr Kozatchkoff, Tom Lee, Akim Ndlovu, Tristra Newyear, Jina Oh, Sergei Ryabtsev, Angela Rubino, Catherine Scarboro, Shigeko Suga, Eunice Wong, Meredith Wright, Erzhena Zhambalov & Sayan Zhambalov

till April 9, 2000 Thur-Sun 8PM+ Sun 3:30PM La MaMa 74A East 4^th St NYC

tickets $15/20 (212) 475-7710 more info on Yara website www.brama.com/yara/

also

April 14 URAGSHA, concert of traditional Buryat and Mongolian music with Erzhena Zhambalov, Sayan Zhambalov, Battuvshin and Badmahanda Aiusheyeva

Fri 8 PM for World Music Institute – 135 W 4^th St Box office (212) 545-7536 tickets

for information on Buryats call (212) 475-6474, e-mail yara@prodigy.net

current schedule on Yara's website www.brama.com/yara/