Megitza Quartet

"World music for the new millennium.

Kurt Weil meets Edith Piaf, meets Stephane Grappelli, meets Erik Satie, meets the Megitza Quartet."
- Jim Tullio, Grammy Award Winning Composer and Producer


"The musicians are all class by itself and its being doubled by their unusual charisma."
Bozena Jankowska, Dziennik Zwiazkowy Chicago

NewCity says Megitza Quartet is: the most impressive to come out of Chicago.
The band is fronted by Malgorzata Babiarz - also an upright bass player - with her strong, expressive voice and a Highlander Gypsy soul, Andreas Kapsalis, -an exceptional guitarist of a Greek descent, who uses a unique technique of finger tapping and incorporates his guitars body as percussion instrument, together with Marek Lichota - a Polish bayan virtuoso, and all backed by an excellent innovative drummer Jamie Gallagher, who uses a hybrid, multicultural drum set.

With their high energy stage presence, original compositions, and arrangements, the Megitza Quartet offers its audiences an insurmountable dose of adventure where even without knowing the language anyone can be captivated by their songs , that give a pinch of inspiration, a smile, and a tear

Notable performances:
- Chicago World Music Festival (2009)
- Lotus Festival in Bloomington (2009)
- Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago (2009)
- Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival (2009)
- Chicago Cultural Center (2009)
- Cindy Pritzker Auditorium (2009)
- Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago (2009)


Quotes and press:
[..] this is the kind of music people cant help but get up to dance to. Seeing them live is reminiscent of a gypsy performance—chaotic, soulful, and stirring.
-NewCity Music

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Their debut album "Boleritza"(2008) features a Gypsy violin virtuoso Roby Lakatos, also known as "the devil's fiddler."


"There is nothing as terrifying as witnessing the reincarnation of old prophet's soul in a voice of a young artist."
-Osvaldo Golijov, Grammy Award Winning Composer

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