Nadya's 101 Candles Orkestra
Nadya and the “101 Candles Orkestra”
Nadya Golski sings Eastern European/Gypsy and Klezmer inspired songs with Gospel jazz and Latin influences. She sings in English, French, Polish, Serbo Croatian, Romany and Spanish. She also sings in languages from the South Pacific Islands.
Her repertoire comprises her own songs in various languages, and interpretations of traditional songs from Eastern Europe, with the occasional reference to the South Pacific Islands and the Afro American Blues/Gospel tradition.
The multi linguistic elements including French and Spanish, combined with the fact that she introduces South Pacific elements and Gospel, gives Nadya’s take on the Eastern European/Gypsy genre a uniquely Australasian and Western perspective.
Different parts of her life; where she has lived, her family background, and music she has loved, have all been inspiration for such a diverse and yet integral approach to her creativity.
Eastern European/Gypsy Music
Nadya launched her first Eastern European inspired double album, 'Effugio', (partly recorded by the ABC studios), at the Sydney Opera House to packed audiences in 2002. The album has since been reissued as a single album simply entitled,"Nadya and Giga 101 Candles Orkestra".
Nadya’s second album in the same genre is “Crazy Moon” and was assisted by the Australian Council for the Arts. Crazy Moon features a looser interpretation of the Eastern European genre, integrating strong jazz French and Spanish influences with Jazz and Balkan style instrumentation. Featuring musicians such as Chad Wackerman on drums as well as the “101 Candles” musicians as John Maddox on double bass, Sam Golding on tuba and trumpet, Daniel Weltlinger on violin, Dragi Kocoski on accordion, Rafal Dabrowski on Hammond and keyboards, and the wonderful Blagojce Dimitrievski on clarinet just to name a few.
"Heaven and Other Places" was released immediately after “Crazy Moon” with Dave Fernell on piano, Victor Rounds on electric bass, and Jonathan Zwartz on double bass, showcases Nadya's rich voice in the jazz and soul genre.
South Pacific Islands
Her debut album was entitled "Haiwe Draiva". This album was co-written by her brother Mishka Golski and was inspired by their childhood in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
The second album "Moka the Gift” was also in languages from the South Pacific Islands, mostly from Papua New Guinea.
Her first ever tour was a promotional tour of the South Pacific Islands, sponsored by Pepsi Cola and later Coca Cola, in which she achieved legendary status.
Montreux jazz Festival
Edinburgh Fringe
Sziget Festival
Festivals in UK
WomAdelaide Festival
Woodford Folk Festival
Bellingen Global Carnival
Sydney Opera House
Sydney festival
Birds of a Different Feather
Serbs, Macedonians, Jews, Gypsies, and others playing one tune, ”Why not, mate?”
Rich, diverse, steeped in the imagery of untamed energy, from the fringes of Europe…Only in the imagination could these peoples appear as one. For sharing so much, and not only in the fantasies of outsiders, the dwellers of Karpatski, Besarabia, Moldovia and Herzegovina and others are still oceans apart, islands of historically perpetuated squabbles, and bitter fights for autonomy. Waiting for common ground to be found.
Australia has proved to be the ground, and music its catalyst. For transplanted Into this land so remote from Europe, peoples can abandon their differences and foster similarities, and find that doing so gives them greater clout in this dispersed urban village where about one hundred and one different cultures reside side by side.
Nadya’s 101 Candles Orkestra, a well-known Sydney band has given a resounding voice to such unity. 101 Candles vibrates souls, its infectious spirit bonding communities with each other and with the locals, and as past is mixed with present, generations blend. Musical traditions, which have stirred deep emotions, released ancient yearnings and kept feet dancing in Europe for centuries, are re-vamped and brought into the present by effervescent Sydney girl Nadya Golski, the central personality and lead singer who’s prodigious ear, intense vitality, and extraordinary vocal delivery have brought together a disparate group of virtuoso musicians from multi-cultural Sydney. Nadya’s is the voice which makes the music present and exciting, never suppressing the
Individuality of the musicians, and producing an unforgettable sound.
And as the 101 Candles lives and changes, it embraces Poland, Russia, France, Spain and even South Pacific Island cultures with surprising twists of jazz and blues in English, woven magically into the vital and mysterious tapestry of a wonderful performance.
Dr. Wojciech Dabrowski
P.H.D Anthropology ANU
Nadya and the boys have recently returned from performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2005. The stayed in a chateau in the mountains and performed for two balmy evenings, on out door stages to thousands of enchanted jazz fans.
There were comments from audience members that not only were Nadya and the Candles an unexpected sound coming from Australia, but also a refreshing and exciting change in a festival dominated, obviously by jazz and blues and derivations there of. It's surprising how cathegories of music are becomeing more and more elastic. Gypsy and Eastern European music fits in quite comfortably under broad jazz headings. And listeners of jazz and blues tend to enjoy this brand of music for its freedom and expression.
In 2006 the band again toured Europe, playing at the Sziget Festival in Hungary and many venues in Poland and France including The Tygmont Jazz Club in Warsaw, Centrum Kultury and Muszil Koncertowia in Lublin & La Chemane in Paris. They also lead vocal workshops at the acclaimed Gardzienice Theatre Company.
They were also chosen to perform at the 2006 Oxfam Concert in Sydney at the Shangri-la.
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