Black Olive Babes
offer an exciting, eclectic mix of Balkan, Romani, Sephardic and American roots music. These sultry rhythms and soul-stirring melodies create a dance and trance-inducing groove that carries you from the shores of the Black Sea to the foothills of the Appalachians. Founded by 20-year Kitka veteran Juliana Graffagna, BOB features some of the Bay Area’s most innovative interpreters of Southern Balkan and Middle Eastern traditional music.

  The Band:

  Juliana Graffagna     vocals and guitar  (Kitka)
  Dan Auvil                  percussion  (Edessa & Ziyia)
  Tom Farris                guitar, laouto, accordion (The Helladelics)
  Gari Hegedus           violin and oud  (Teslim & Stellamara)
  Peter Jaques             clarinet and vocals  (Brass Menazeri)
  Bill Lanphier            bass  (The Toids & Trio Mopmu)