Drone Magic is a unique festival of bagpipe music from around the world. Many of our pipers will perform music and traditions of their own heritage, from dark laments to fiery dance music. Listen to the piping traditions of Ireland, Spain, Bulgaria, Northumberland, Scotland, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, and Sweden.

5:00 PM Videos:
David Marker: Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy
Ferenc Tobak: Hungarian bagpipers in Moldavia.

6:00 PM Lady pipers
- Tesser Call
- Cathy Chilcott
- Donna Denevan
- Autumn Rhodes

7:30 PM Gala concert

Our guest star Aycan Yeter who will showcase the guda/tulum the pipe of the Laz people, Turkey.

- Hector Bezanis, Greek gajda, Michael Garibaldi percussion, Nicole Georgeou vocal
- Peter Heelan and Sabra Daly, Uilleann pipes and concertina
- Georgi Kabaivanov, Bulgarian gajda
- La Banda de Gaita, Spanish pipeband
- Bruce Cochran Kaba gajda, Bulgarian women singers
- Bruce Maxwell with a fiddler and dancer on Scottish small pipe
- David Marker, Italian zampogna's
- Lynne Miller, Great Highland Pipe of Scotland
- Ferenc Tobak, Hungarian duda and Croatian gajde, Lilla Serlegi samica, Chris McHugh dance
- Mark and Jennie Walstrom, Swedish sackpipa and vocal
- William Wakefield, Northumbrian pipe

Master of Ceremonies, David J. Winter

Location:
Croatian American Cultural Center
60 Onondaga Ave. San Francisco, CA 94112
http://www.slavonicweb.org/
Map

Ethnic food available before the gala concert.

This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter and Elsie Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation.

Information:
707-964-1936 or 707-367-7946
info@dronemagic.com