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Date
Venue
Location
04/15/12
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
at
Empire Polo Grounds
Indio
,
CA
04/22/12
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
at
Empire Polo Grounds
Indio
,
CA
05/27/12
Sasquatch! Music Festival
at
The Gorge
George
,
WA
07/17/12
Metropolis
Montreal
,
QC
07/19/12
The Sound Academy
Toronto
,
ON
07/23/12
Burton Cummings Theater
Winnipeg
,
MB
07/25/12
Starlite Room
Edmonton
,
AB
07/28/12
Orpheum Theatre
Vancouver
,
BC
08/28/12
House of Blues
Boston
,
MA
08/29/12
Rumsey Playfield
New York
,
NY
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While it may sound like an entire Balkan orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut’s first album, Gulag Orkestar, is largely the work of one 19-year-old Albuquerque native, Zach Condon, and was almost completely recorded at home. Horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions (no guitars on this album!) all build and break the melodies under Condon’s deep-voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats that sound like...
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