VinoWino that's what. We rolled into Club de Ville in Austin Saturday night to find a hot dark room tightly packed with bouncing silhouettes.
To the left as we entered was a seven piece gypsy band called WinoVino that was building the crowd to a frenzy. The accordion and fiddle players bleeding sweat as the tempo accelerated and the singer leading the crowd in percussive shouts of "Hey!" as we all broke into spontaneous Russian folk dancing. Whew... and I hadn't even gotten a beer yet.
WinoVino define themselves as a Vaudeville Gypsy Punk Cabaret band finding their inspiration"from the cobbled streets of Paris (circa 1920) to a dusty wagon train in Romania, from gluttony on the high seas of piracy to the hunger of Americana folklore, we've hitched our way across a century and more to find you here today".
I define them as pure fun.
Too soon the set ended. I wish we had stumbled upon them earlier in the night.
We headed outdoors to cool down. Like most clubs in Austin, Club de Ville has a big outdoor space but theirs is uniquely bounded by a 30' limestone cliff. It creates a nice outdoor room. They used the limestone wall as a projection screen where perfectly good images were turned into impressionist paintings by the jagged cliff. We huddled near one of the ubiquitous outdoor heaters, finished our drinks and enjoyed the night air.
If you like Gypsy or Gypsy Punk here's a couple other bands I follow. Gorgol Bordello and Rupa and the April Fishes.
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