This year, the BALKAN TRAFIK festival celebrates its 10th anniversary! The festival, which is devoted to cultures and minorities from South-east Europe and aims to bring these people together with local artists, has become an unmissable feature of the Brussels cultural calendar thanks to the quality of its programmes, its originality and its utterly incomparable atmosphere. It offers people the chance to think about what it means to share ideas and embrace multiculturalism, about migration and the historical memory of migrants and migrant societies.  It is a time for fruitful cultural exchange in a festive, exuberant ambience which combines opportunities to meet the artists, film screenings and concerts.

It’s in the last category that you can find the set from MOTION TRIO. This group, sometimes dubbed the ‘trio furioso’, is perhaps one of the best groups of accordionists in the world. It owes its reputation to the tireless dynamism of its members and their musical imagination which takes them a very great distance from folklore. With them, you can expect the unexpected: they make their accordions shiver, squeak, murmur and shriek and they dabble in rock, jazz, techno and metal, revisiting Brahms and Chopin, Lutoslawski and Gorecki along the way.  Whether you’re a fan of pop or classical music (or both) you’re bound to find something to enjoy! 
+++ Motion Trio discography HERE

Motion Trio performed in Brussels on 1 July 2011 to celebrate the Polish presidency of the European Union and now they’re back to delight audiences at the BALKAN TRAFIK festival on Saturday 16 April 2016.

+++ Practical information

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Center for Fine Arts – BOZAR (Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussels), hall M – see map
>>> Satursday 16 April 2016 [first concert at 14:00] – 22:00 > 22:45 
>>> one day pass : €25 > €19€ [online box office]

+++ Don’t miss the screening of the film Papusza, which tells the true story of Papusza, the first Roma poet, also on 16 April at 17:30: find out more HERE

Links

•  Balkan Trafik: http://http://www.balkantrafik.com/fr/
•  Bozar: http://www.bozar.be