BadaBimBumBand

The Italian brass-percussion marching orchestra BadaBimBumBand will present to the audience of this year’s Street Musicians Festival not one, but two of their mobile shows – the first titled Bandita, and the other Wanna Gonna Show. As they announced, Bandita is an entertaining performance, fresh, easy, ironical and original. Playing for all ears, not restricting themselves to one, specific genre, but playing jazz, and Dixieland, and funk, and there will be a cappella parts, acquired from the musical heritage of Tuscany (from where these musicians come from).

What makes BadaBimBumBand a unique marching orchestra is also their imaginative choice of costume and great choreography. Namely, during their performances, the musicians move one moment in a row, another in a column, yet another in a circle, and sometimes they criss-cross, while sometimes they crawl, and then again sometimes they hide among or mingle with the crowd… and then in no time at all they again form a new formation. All in all, Bandita link innovation and tradition, holly and profound, the so called viewing music with music for listening.

On the other hand, Wanna Gonna Show possesses music ranging from Greek to Finnish folklore, and even from klezmer to tunes belonging to Bulgarian or Portuguese musical tradition. The show is adorned with a great choreography and quick costume changes. The group transforms for every new scene again and again, not lacking a cappella numbers as well. Wanna Gonna Show is an audience award winning show on the international competition from 2012 in the Basque country, when the group won first place, competing against 48 other ensembles from various countries.

Of course, Bandita and Wanna Gonna Show will took part in countless festivals, first in Italy, and then all across Europe. BadaBimBumBand, masters of the greatest street spirit, is brought to you by the Street Musicians Festival with help from the Italian Institute For Culture in Belgrade (http://www.iicbelgrado.esteri.it/IIC_Belgrado, https://www.facebook.com/iic.belgrado.3 & https://twitter.com/IICBelgrado).