Budapest Cafe Orchestra

Established by award-winning British composer, violinist and teacher Christian Garrick, the electrifying 4-piece BCO plays gypsy and folk-flavoured music, including traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian tunes, with jazz nuances and following their own unique arrangements. Specialists of the ‘distilled concerto’, they artfully rework masterpieces by the greats of the Romantic era. The Scotsman distilled their appeal this way: ‘Not so much a band name as a whole genre of its own, Budapest Cafe Orchestra embraces an encyclopaedia of music and mischief.’