From History and Highlights
(per Mar '08)

"The band's visual look - unicorn hairdos and ½ meter long, sharp-pointed shoes are already worldwide known and well-established Leningrad Cowboys trademarks. Band’s unique musical style of performing cover and original songs combined with highly visual stage-look aims’ for one common goal --- to make the audience scream, jump and party!

For over fifteen years, the band has performed in hundreds of festivals, clubs and TV shows in over fifty countries; including Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, South America, Australia, USA and the United Arab Emirates. In June 1993 the Leningrad Cowboys pulled off the most amazing production: "Total Balalaika Show", a joint concert with the full 160-member Russian Red Army Ensemble, which the Variety magazine called "the most incongruous - and inspired – crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy". The setting for this sensational show was grandiose: the biggest stage ever built in Finland, on the main square of Helsinki and witnessed by an enthusiast audience of 70.000 people!

The Helsinki concert was followed in 1994 with a second Balalaika-joint-concert of the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Ensemble. The "NOKIA Balalaika Show" took place at Berlin’s Lustgarten, where 60.000 people enjoyed the concert on this historical day, which witnessed the farewell march of the allied troops. The show started with Beethoven, was followed by familiar hits like “Let’s work together” & "Gimme all your lovin" --- ending up in spectacular fireworks. All together, the Berlin concert received fantastic global media coverage and highly positive response."

Leningrad Cowboys and Red Army Choir

This is modern Culture! Or Cult, how you want to look at it.
Finnish rockers and the old Soviet Union Red Army Choir.

MPEG-4; may require Quicktime.

 
Song Time Size Comments
Kalinka 5m12s 10.9MB The truly classic Russian song [W]
Delilah 4m17s 10.4MB A hit by Tom Jones, first recorded '68 [W]
Always Look On The
Bright Side Of Life
5m27s 13.4MB Monty Python's classic partly in Russian! [W]
My Way 4m42s 12.6MB Best known by Frank Sinatra [W]
Sweet Home Alabama 2m17s 5.9MB By Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1974 [W]
Stairway To Heaven 9m45s 19.4MB By Led Zeppelin, 1971 [W]

All in MPEG-4 format; 320 x 240, H.264, AAC, 2 ch. Conversions from FLV by J&P MediaLabs.

For the ones not familiar with Leningrad Cowboys - check out the hair dos and shoes...!

More at www.leningradcowboys.fi and more on concerts w/ Red Army Choir in History and Highlights - http://www.leningradcowboys.fi/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=6.

(Added to J&P Fun 2008-03-29)


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