Wed 4/25 @ 8PM
Just a few weeks ago, Greek singer/accordionist/ keyboard player/composer Magda Giannikou was in Cleveland for one of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Fridays @7 concert, at which a traditional orchestra performance followed by something more freewheeling and usually more danceable.
Giannikou must like it here because she’s booked a return date at the Music Box Supper Club, bringing along her band Banda Magda. Together they perform fun and flirty free-range music that takes some from the folk music of Giannikou’s native country, some from French ballads and pop tunes, and some from such Latin sources as cumbia, samba and Afro-Peruvian lando. All of it is informed by Giannikou’s experience in film scoring, which she studied at Boston’s Berklee College, giving the music a vivid pictorial quality.
Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.