Fantastic Live Eastern European and Balkan Music in London

Buffo’s Wake + Mazaika

Friday 3 July 2026

Live Music from 9pm

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Buffo’s Wake bring an avalanche of accordions, clarinets, violins and buckets full of bravado the waltz, tango, mosh and kolo their way through an array of influences from Eastern European folk tunes, Balkan brass bands and Slavic murder ballads to punk rock and dark cabaret. In support, Mazaika will ignite the stage with Gypsy fire, tango passion, operatic melodrama and classical virtuosity, plus some hot club and hillbilly mayhem!

Headliners Buffo’s Wake are a 20 legged monstrosity, hatched in the murky backwater of Brighton, telling tales of debauchery, disturbed nightmares and even more disturbing realities, with an unexpected nous for untold stories and unusually considered lyrics – when you can understand them, anyway. They’re a collective of musical misfits drawn from a range of diverse backgrounds: drum ‘n’bass DJs confront classical strings, DIY punks debate jazz obsessives, and introverted poets showdown with obnoxious showmen. It all comprises of a gloriously inconsistent mix of influences and personalities – unpredictable, chaotic and utterly engrossing. The band have toured everywhere from American dive-bars to Scandanivian squats, sun-kissed Mediterranean beaches to snow-capped Alpine slopes – always leaving an inspired, confused, sweaty, and often inebriated audience in their wake. Expect chaotic-Klezmer-Carnival-Punk with influences from Abba to Zappa, that will leave you dancing like a soul possessed!

“Intriguing violins and erratic accordions, both utterly besmirched with wonderfully gloomy undertones and lingering vocals” – Stuart Mason, Geeks.co.uk

Mazaika – Known for their dazzling virtuosity, intoxicating passion and spontaneous theatricality and humour, Mazaika will transport us from the fairytale Russian Steppe to the flickering Romany campfire, the elegance of the Concert Hall to the glitter of The Moulin Rouge. The duo, made up of Igor Outkine on vocals, accordion and his mind-blowing, genre-defying midi accordion, and the versatile and virtuosic violinist Sarah Harrison, who also brings her vocal talents to the proceedings and plays a mean Russian Domra, have spent two decades enchanting audiences from the Cadogan Hall to the Crazy Coqs, Glastonbury to The Green Note. Expect a unique, humorous and uplifting take on Russian Folk and Gypsy, Classical, Opera, Tango, Gypsy Jazz, Latin, Italian, French Chanson, Balkan Beat, Klezmer and evocative original material inspired by all of the above.

”By the end of the evening the Purcell Room had become a Tavern” The Independent

“The world’s first head-banging accordionist” – The Guardian

Jamboree food option: Our ‘Zer’ kitchen is open from 5pm serving delicious Middle Eastern fusion food for you to enjoy a pre-gig meal/snack if you wish! Find the menu HERE!

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