Briga hits Toronto & Kingston

Happy New Year everybody!

And what a year 2010 will turn out to be...
although still unclear as to what lurks ahead, quite a few of us feel that it will only get better; that it will be a good year!

Briga's hittin' off the winter months with a CD release in Toronto and then Kingston, Ontario. After celebrating "Diaspora"'s debut in Montreal this past November, it only makes sense to cross over into Ontario and introduce ourselves to our anglophone counterparts.

So this Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010, Briga will celebrate her Canadian release of "Diaspora" at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Show starts @ 8pm and tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. If you are interested in seeing/hearing the show, you can reserve tickets in advance by clicking here:

Hugh's Room

Then it's off to The Mansion in Kingston, Ontario, to celebrate Reading Week with Kingston's students. Briga will be sharing a double bill with The Free Whiskeys....what better way to mix some Gypsy fiddle with some bluegrass roots! The show takes place on Wednesday, February 24th, and starts at 9pm.

Hope to see y'all there!

Briga: Youtube Channel

For those of you who didn't have a chance to make it out to the Montreal CD launch, we'll be releasing the album "Diaspora" in Toronto, ON on February 23rd 2010 @ Hugh's Room. Show starts at 8:30 pm.

Now...if that's a little too far ahead in the future for you, or a bit too far geographically speaking...never fear, technology is here! Check out Briga's Youtube Channel, and you'll be able to see what you missed!

2 Novembre au Cabaret Lion d'Or à Montreal

Lundi, le 2 novembre 2009, la violoniste Briga fêtera le lancement de son premier album solo intitulé “Diaspora”. En plus de jouer les pieces de l’album live avec ses quatres musiciens, il y aura une première de l’animation/vidéoclip “Empress” réalisé par Lyle Pisio.

Portes ouvertes à 20h00, la soirée commençera à 20h30

$12 + frais à l'avance, $15 + frais à la porte

Billeterie Articulée: 514-844-2171 ou www.admission.com


La violoniste Briga, alias Brigitte Dajczer, vous prépare un délirant spectacle de musique métissée et jazzée, où l'improvisation est de mise et le violon tzigane est accompagné de divers influences musicales.

Entourée de Jérémi Roy à la basse, de Marton Maderspach à la batterie, d'Alix Noël à l'accordéon et au clavier ainsi que de Tacfarinas Kichou aux percussions, Briga provoquera chez vous l'envie de danser au rythme de pièces traditionnelles roumaines, hongroises, bulgares, ex-yougoslaves et tziganes.

Déjà connue sur la relève Québecoise comme membre du groupe Balkan Les Gitans de Sarajevo, protégée du violoniste tzigane Roumain Carmen Piculeata(Cirque du Soleil, Paul Kunigis, Bahtalo) et connue à travers le Canada comme étant une violoniste authentique dans son jeux et audacieuse dans ses idées et arrangements, Briga se situe au centre du carrefour musicale Montréalaise en métissant les influences francophones, anglophones et multi-ethnique de sa ville natale, à sa musique.

Briga's song: "Empress" featured in Lyle Pisio's New stop animated short film

Lyle PIsio, an artist from Calgary, Alberta, has just released his most recent stop animation short: Empress.

It is an honor to be part of such a beautiful creative project! You can check out the film trailer on the distribution company REELPORT's website: Reelport trailer: Empress by Lyle Pisio
as well as look up more of Lyle Pisio's video work on his website: www.lilyposie.ca

PRE-RELEASE: Briga's double CD album "Diaspora" is available online!

If you are interested in getting a copy of Briga's new double CD album "Diaspora", check us out at CD Baby & itunes...!

Exciting? Yes ;) Daunting? Yes ;p Relieving & Stressful? All of the above!
A lot of people have come into play in realizing this dream. Many faces, chapters and encounters have been met, and I'd like to dedicate this post to all of them. So I figured I'd break it down to a few anecdotes of interesting times we've shared up until now. Here's a photo of Studio Karisma sound genius Guy Hébert & I during the Mastering of the Album. We spent a very relaxed day together, listening, going to the Polish Bakery, eating so many wonders of food, and drinking tea. Oh...did I mention that we worked hard?!

And after waiting to get the design and printing lined up...It's finaly arrived! A very narrow miss but it all worked out!
The goal was to have the CD ready to share with music lovers at a show we played last night in Ste-Geneviève, Québec. Our good friends at Standard Media Services (www.standardmedia.ca) had shipped the order out from Ottawa to Montreal on August 11th, with the goal of it arriving at my place before noon on August 12th.

As profound stupidity would have it, the order was missed and was now floating somewhere around the island of Montréal in a Purolator truck before it would be retired at the Purolator Headquarters in ANJOU @ 6:30pm. Let me remind you that the show was due to start at 7:30pm and end no later than 8:30pm. The manager, Joe Cuntrera, was facing the possibility that he just might have to drive all the way out to Anjou (about 40 minutes each way) during the show to get those CDs.


Needless to say, what happened next was a gift. On his way to come pick us up before the gig, Joe took a wrong turn and found himself face to face with a Purolator truck. He pulled over and managed to catch the guy in the truck. "Excuse-me, would you by any chance have a box of 1000 CDs that weren't deliverable?" The guy answered "YES!" They checked the name, and it was definitey our order!

So that's that! The CDs were retrieved, Joe never had to drive to Anjou and we got to La Salle Pauline Julien in time for the gig.

As for the album release, it was scheduled for October 2nd at Café Sarajevo but news has it that Café Sarajevo has just lost a court case in regards to being a live music venue. So while we search for a new venue to release the album, we will be selling CDs through CD Baby, itunes and mail order....

à+!
Briga ;)

BRIGA's debut Solo Album will be released in the fall of 2009. In the mean time, feel free to listen to some tracks by double clicking on BRIGA's myspace link to the right of this page >>>>>>>>>

BRIGA is Brigitte Dajczer. A nickname given to her by band mates in Les Gitans de Sarajevo who happen to also be refugees of the Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia, BRIGA means “to worry”, or “burden”. Often it is a term of endearment when referring to your loved one as “moje briga” or “my burden”. Some of the most beautiful songs come from the sadness one expresses, or the weight of woes on one’s heart…and from all of this, the weight of a burden is lifted, and thus BRIGA is born...