{"id":770,"date":"2016-02-23T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/?p=770"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:23:24","slug":"saray-iluminado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/saray-iluminado\/","title":{"rendered":"Saray Iluminado at EuRaw Stories Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re pretty excited to announce that Melbourne-based band SARAY Iluminado will be gracing us with their tunes on our launch night.<\/p>\n

Led by Bosnian-Australian composer, singer and pianist Nela Trifkovic,\u00a0SARAY Iluminado plays traditional Bosnian and Herzegovinian music – Sevdah and Sephardic Jewish music from the Balkans.<\/p>\n

\"saray3\"The ensemble also includes: Australia’s leading klezmer and Sephardic violinist Ernie Gruner, and multi instrumentalists Kelly Dowall and William Thompson, both passionate virtuosi of Balkan, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music. Kelly masters the Turkish ney flute, various frame drums and clarinet, while William plays the Turkish oud, the European lute and sings with Nela.<\/p>\n

The band favours intimate tavern-style musical gatherings, where they share folkloric stories and songs of love and grief, hope and despair.<\/p>\n

In only 2 years\u00a0 of existence, SARAY Iluminado has become a much loved festival act and received a professional mentoring grant from VCA, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Arts Victoria. The grant will enable them to record their first full length album, “Nightingales in the rose garden”, and continue their development.<\/p>\n

Read more about SARAY Iluminado on their website at www.sarayiluminado.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Come and see SARAY Iluminado play at our launch this coming Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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