Posts Tagged ‘hookah’

Despite our biggest event of the year being canceled at literally the last possible second, those who came to Gypsy Tabor to camp out for three days of music, booze, and frivolity were not going home without a fight. We didn’t actually do much fighting, but we did a whole lotta music making, hookah-smoking, BBQ-ing, [...]

We’ve had a few straight weeks of pure pleasantry – tribal dancers, confetti getting into Mishto’s laptop keyboard, great people who have been added to our phone directories for future folk-dancing/shot-taking, and inspiration to take this festive gathering to a new level. Spring Fest Weekend! Dhyana and Irina danced for us Thursday and Saturday, with [...]

The proceedings of February 25th were enough to thaw us out from the blizzard, and somehow also quite full of citrus flavor… See you next week!

This party is going to be totally bananas. You’d be foolish to miss it. [Burdel Dali Presents] Mardi Gras Carnival Party! ★ Next week the Burdel Dali Militia will dust off our dancing shoes two days early to celebrate Fat Tuesday in a fit of debauchery and excess. Come out, have a shot of rakia, [...]

Raj and Allie Silver, hailing from the same radio station in Chicago without evening knowing it – how Mehanata brings us back together! Allie interviewed us about Burdel Dali for WNUR 89.3 FM back in October – we’ll have some audio from the show up shortly. Georgie porgy pudding pie, kissed the girls and made [...]

If Krampus has any candidates for kidnapping/harassment this year, those crazy gypsies all gathered at Mehanata last night, despite the insane blizzard and the heavy eggnog dosage… We left the lights and decorations behind at the commune to ring in the holidays the only way we know: Good music, pretty girls, and non-stop dancing… ★ [...]

An amazing Burdel Dali Presents last night, with cameos by the elegant dancer Yoko and freaking Charlie Chaplin herself. As if that wasn’t enough, a pair of blinking green glasses surfaced and shit hit the fan… Photos by Tchaikovsky Darling.

We’d like to thank the funeral party who left black/red balloons for us to play with this weekend. They were very useful. . . May your departed loved one rest in peace knowing what you were doing as soon as they left this earth(!!!) Later we would make equally practical use of this random tree [...]

[Burdel Dali Presents] The Kreptatka Bar Band COSTUME PARTY! This Thursday at Burdel Dali Presents, come early for a live performance by the highly decorated, widely feared & adored Kreptatka Bar Band… come see if their inspirations (Gypsy Shamanism, substance) make an appearance. At 9:30, Yuri Younakov & Avram Pengas take the stage. At 11:00 [...]