anoushka shankar traveller

Traveller (2011)

Inside Me 3:18
Buleria con Ricardo 6:02
Krishna 5:50
Si No Puedo Verla 5:15
Dancing in Madness 4.29
Boy Meets Girl 4:56
Traveller 3:40
Casi Uno 5:25
Bhairavi 10:26
Lola's Lullaby 4:13

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I t goes without saying that Anoushka Shankar is a virtuoso sitar player, but one can never be sure how she will use her skills. She has given some memorable performances in the past, playing ragas alongside her legendary father and teacher Ravi , but her solo work has edged towards the experimental and pop mainstream. Her Breathing Under Water album, recorded with electronica exponent Karsh Kale, included a ballad from Sting . Now comes a very different project, in which she explores the links between Indian music and Spanish flamenco, the result of ancient Gypsy migration. It's an area that has fascinated Nitin Sawhney – who provides the sleeve notes – and allows her to demonstrate her inspired instrumental work in the company of Indian musicians and the flamenco elite, including the producer and guitarist Javier Limón . The best tracks are those where Shankar takes chances, matching uninhibited sitar improvisation against flamenco percussion and the furious, inspired piano work of Pedro Ricardo Miño on the thrilling Buleria Con Ricardo, or backing the passionate singing of Duquende or more thoughtful Concha Buika. There are occasional less exciting, easygoing passages, including the title track, but this is a brave and original set.

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Anoushka shankar and ‘traveller’ — a raga-flamenco journey.

“ Traveller ” brings together the soulful soaring music of Spanish flamenco with the unique texture and rhythms of Indian classical music. The album and concert series re-interpret the thousand-year-old link between Spanish and Indian music, originally kicked off by gypsy migration from northwest India to Europe, Africa, and west Asia. The pieces span a wide range of texture, rhythm, melody, and mood.

Anoushka Shankar began as an Indian classical music sitarist, and then branched out into fusion and international collaboration. She is the only artist to be trained solely by her father, internationally renowned Pandit Ravi Shankar (she looks a lot like him as well!).

Anoushka has been deeply rooted in Indian classical music from the age of nine. She was the first Indian musician to perform at the Grammy Awards in 2006 when she was nominated for the album Rise, soon after becoming the youngest-ever nominee and the first woman nominated in the World Music category, for her album Live at Carnegie Hall in 2002.

Born in London, and raised between New Delhi and California as well, Anoushka’s career has been international from the start, embracing Indian and Western classical music, followed by jazz and other forms. She collaborated with Indian-American musician-composer Karsh Kale in the album Breathing Under Water , which included guest appearances by her half-sister Norah Jones, Sting, and others.

She has performed along with her father and teacher Ravi Shankar, and also explored experimental, electronica and pop. She now resides in London with her husband, director Joe Wright and their son Zubin. Her albums over the past fifteen years include Breathing Under Water, Healing the Divide, Rise, Anourag, Anoushka and Live at Carnegie Hall.

The latest album Traveller has been produced by the noted Spanish musician, songwriter, and producer Javier Limón. Anoushka has described this album as a cross-cultural journey as well as a record of her getting married and having a baby (as reflected by tracks like Inside Me and Lola’s Lullaby). The CD is a terrific mix of India and Andalusia, and is original, mesmerising and inspiring.

Reviewers have already hailed it for being “a joyful and serene exploration,” “diverse and innovative,” a fitting testimony to Anoushka’s “compositional and improvisational skills.” Her work as a talented composer has been described as “the perpetual exploration of the fertile ground between Indian music and a variety of genres.” The combination of “passionate flamenco notes with soul stirring Indian instrumental adds up to a deeply satisfying musical journey.”

The performance in Bangalore was not entirely fusion; there were quite a few Indian classical music pieces, and the Spanish musicians took turns accompanying her on the other tracks.

The Indo-Spanish lineup at the Bangalore concert included Sandra Carrasco (vocals), Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam), Ramon Porrina (cajon), Sanjeev Shankar (shehnai), Melon Jimenez (flamenco guitar), and Tanmoy Bose (tabla). Other lineups in the past have included violin, piano and dancers.

Anoushka introduced the musicians at the performance and briefly described the pieces; some more details would have been greatly appreciated, and it would have been nice to hear the Spanish musicians speak as well.

The 14-song performance was spread over two sets. The opening piece was Indian classical, followed by flamenco. Sandra Carrasco’s soaring vocals stood out, as well as the superb interplay between sitar riffs and high-energy cajon. The next fusion piece beautifully blended palmas along with cajon and mridangam, followed by a swaying shaking rumba.

Percussionist Pirashanna Thevarajah showed his prowess on mridangam, moorsing and konnakol in the next piece. The closing piece of the first set was based on Raga Kirwani, and the second set opened with Lola’s Lullaby.

This was followed by a tender love song. “ I am very shy when it comes to singing about love, so I had the lyrics translated into Spanish ,” Anoushka joked. Pirashanna Thevarajah switched to ghatam for this track.

Sandra Carrasco showcased her sizzling vocals again on the next track; it would have been terrific to have a flamenco dancer accompanying this piece. Melon Jimenez on guitar and Pirashanna Thevarajah on ghatam ended the song with a superb crescendo.

As the concert moved to its final phases, Melon Jimenez showed off his explosive guitar playing on the next piece, with the last track being the title track from Traveller. All the musicians took solos on this piece, and Anoushka displayed some unusual sitar plucking and even strumming techniques.

The performance drew a standing ovation, and many in the audience wished they could follow the musicians on the rest of their India tour to Kolkata and Guwahati, and beyond! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Duration: 1 hour

Tracks: 12 Track listing: 1. Inside Me 2. Buleria con Ricardo 3. Krishna 4. Si no puedo verla 5. Dancing in Madness 6. Boy Meets Girl 7. Kanya 8. Traveller 9. ISHQ 10. Casi Uno 11. Bhairavi 12. Lola’s Lullaby

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Deutsche Grammophons artist Anoushka Shankar is a musical aristocrat: Her father and teacher is Ravi Shankar Embracing the heritage of flamenco from it's origins in India to home in Spain, Anoushka Shankar creates a sound that is fresh, distinctive, and fascinating Anoushka Shankar is established as one of todays leading performers blending Indian and Western classical music, flamenco, jazz, and numerous other influences.

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On signing this agreement, Anoushka Shankar said: "It means so much to me to be able to bring my work to a label that has presented some of my father's most beautiful recordings. I look forward to this new opportunity to explore and express the music I love."

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In recognition of her artistry and musicianship, the British Parliament presented Anoushka with a House of Commons Shield in 1998. The Indian Television Academy, Asmi, and India Times chose her as one of four "Women of the Year" in India in 2003 -- and in 2004 she was selected as one of twenty "Asian Heroes" by the Asia edition of Time magazine.

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Anoushka Shankar: Traveller

Anoushka Shankar has been marking out a difficult and fascinating path for herself. She started out as a sitar traditionalist, proving that she had all the chops and technical rigor of her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar. This brought her international fame even before she signed her first record contract (famously, at age 16).

But she has branched out in the last few years. Her 2005 album Rise was full of exciting, pop-inflected songs that were still rooted in sitar and Hindi folk styles. 2008’s Breathing Under Water was a successful (if sedate) collaboration with drummer/electronicist Karsh Kale; it also marked the first time Shankar had collaborated on disc with her half-sister Norah Jones.

Traveller finally arrived here this year after debuting internationally in 2011. This album is a surprising — but extremely successful — detour for Anoushka Shankar, as it sees her taking on a form one would never have expected: flamenco.

Of course, as we come to find out, this should have made perfect sense. Flamenco is also extremely technical music, and is probably quite close to raga form somewhere back in the centuries. But at first, it is okay to be skeptical. She’ll win you over.

The opener here, “Inside Me”, could pass for a hundred things, but flamenco might not be any of them. It’s sprightly, bubbly, but not necessarily Spanish in any recognizable way. But the next track, “Buleria con Ricardo,” is the gauntlet-thrower, with dramatic piano from Pedro Ricardo Miño, complicated hand-clapping, and twists and turns that sound very flamenco…until you focus on Shankar’s sitar fills, and realize that the piece could perhaps have been a legitimate raga.

Or take the five-minute duel of “Boy Meets Girl”, consisting solely of Shankar playing with flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela. Their musical traditions meld, break apart, come back together, merge and slide across any boundaries that might once have been there. Both are not just great at playing lots of pretty notes — they are masters of musical space as well, creating lots of room (and respect) for each other.

Shankar continues to explore the connections between ragas and flamenco songs throughout the disc — and when there aren’t any, she and her cohorts invent some. On “Si No Puedo Verla”, she and Javier Limón translate a 14th-century Sufi poem into Spanish and turn flamenco vocalist Duquende loose on it, bringing some Romany grit and wisdom to the table. On “Casi Uno”, Shankar and Limón co-write a lament and turn it over to the incomparable voice of Concha Buika. This singer from Equatorial Guinea might be the best flamenco singer of her generation, and this track does nothing to suggest otherwise.

There are so many riches here: Sanjeev Chimmalgi’s Indian vocals in pure flamenco style on “Ishq”; Sandra Carrasco and her beautiful voice going way over the top on “Kanya”; percussion masters Piraña (Spanish) and Tanmoy Bose and Kenji Ota (Indian) throughout; and so on. What holds it all together is Anoushka Shankar, proving that she might be the single most important figure in whatever “world music” is today.

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Anoushka Shankar: Traveller

Gypsy music from India to Spain

Sandra Carrasco — Vocalist

Pirashanna Thevarajah — Indian percussion

Ramon Porrina — Percussionist

Sanjeev Shankar — Shehnai

Alvaro Antona — Flamenco guitar

Padma Shankar — Violinist

Shalini Patnaik — Dancer

Kenji Ota — Tanpurist

Pepe Habichuela — Flamenco guitar, special guest

Ricardo Miño — Pianist, special guest

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Originally premiered as an exclusive live webcast on medici.tv in July 2011, this captivating concert showcases Anoushka Shankar's Grammy-nominated Traveller (available on Deutsche Grammophon), a stunning blend of genres and styles featuring an incredible cast of musicians.

Shankar staged this grand world premiere in Girona to exhibit the melodies of her album Traveller . The project, which she called a Raga Flamenco Journey, originated from a specific idea: the desire to retrace the thousand-year-old bond between Indian and Spanish musical traditions.

Strongly inspired by Indian folk music, Anoushka Shankar learned how to play with her father, legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar. Her work as a composer represents a continued exploration of the fertile ground between Indian music and a variety of genres including electronica, jazz, flamenco and Western classical music.

During this concert, scheduled as part of Girona's 12th Festival of World and Sacred music, Anoushka was accompanied by Indian and Flamenco musicians on percussions, flute, shehnai and vocals.

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1776 A Tuna Christmas Aquila Theatre: King Lear Arkansas Jazz All-Stars - Duke Ellington Tribute Camelot Cashore Marionettes David Gonzalez: Sofrito Don Sanders, The Sourdough Cowboy Donald Byrd Dance Company - Jazz Train Duckfeet Players: Hansel and Gretel Duckfeet Players: Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs Gaelic Storm Garden Party Gregory Hines Landis and Company Theatre of Magic: Beauty and the Beast Martha Graham Dance Company - Appalachian Spring Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Very Quiet Cricket Millennium Musical, The MOMIX – Orbit Nnenna Freelon Nutcracker, The - Moscow City Ballet NYC National Company - The Barber of Seville Porgy and Bess San Jose Taiko Smokey Joe's Café St. Petersburg Ice Ballet – Swan Lake Street of Dreams Tony Reedus' "Frontiers" Trinity Irish Dance Company Twelfth Night Uakti University Theatre - She Loves Me Wolf at the Door Puppets: Moon Pie Youthfest: Kid Choir Spring Concert Youthfest: Luann Youthfest: My Life Youthfest: Twelfth Night Youthfest: Winnie the Pooh

Season 9 (2000-2001)

Aeros Al Jarreau Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Arkansas Repertory Theater: It's a Wonderful Life Art Party! Exhibit Opening: Wiggle Works of Art The Baltimore Consort Bang on a Can Ensemble Berta Rojas Chicago, The Musical Christopher Parkening and Jubilant Sykes Cool Cats Jazz with Nancy King Eileen Ivers Forbidden Broadway Garden Party The Georgia Sea Island Singers Godspell It's A Wonderful Life - Montana Rep. John Astin as Edgar Allen Poe – Once Upon a Midnight Jubilant Sykes and Christopher Parkening London City Opera – Carmen Man of La Mancha Nancy King - Cool Cats Jazz North Carolina Dance Theater - Mixed Rep Parson's Dance Company, The – Mixed Rep President's Own, The - U.S. Marine Band The Reluctant Dragon Riders in the Sky: Holiday Spectacular Showboat Steffon Harris Steve Christofferson with Nancy King T.S. Monk Tell Me a Story with Faye Hanson, storyteller Tony Bennett Trio Voronezh US Marine Band - The President's Own Visible Fictions Theatre Company: The Red Balloon Youthfest: Alice in Wonderland Youthfest: Antigone Youthfest: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Youthfest: Fairyfoot Youthfest: The Importance of Being Earnest

Season 10 (2001-2002)

4 Tops Annie Get Your Gun Arkansas Arts Center Tell-A-Tale Troupe: Sleeping Beauty Avalon String Quartet - Van Cliburn Medallist: The Winners Bill Cosby Bob Wills' Texas Playboys Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company Bucky Pizzarelli Christmas Carol Cirque Eloise – Cirque Orchestra Claudia Acuna Copenhagen Danilo Perez: Motherland Tour Garden Party James Sewell Ballet Landis and Company: Cinderella London City Opera - The Merry Widow My Fair Lady Red Grammer Rennie Harris Puremovement Rhythm & Brass: On Your Radio Dial Saigon Water Puppets Scottish Christmas The Acting Company: The Taming of the Shrew Titanic Young Actors Repertory - Hush: Interview with America Young Actors Repertory - The Wrestling Season Youthfest: She Stoops to Conquer Youthfest: The Ice Wolf Youthfest: The Velveteen Rabbit

Season 11 (2002-2003)

Amahl and the Night Visitors An Afternoon of solo piano with Robin Spielberg Anoushka Shankar Aquila Theater: The Importance of Being Earnest Blue Grassy Knoll’s “Sherlock Jr.” BodyVox – Mixed Rep Brian Torff & Randy Sabien CATS Claudia Burson Quartet Complexions Dance Company – Mixed Rep Conta Brasil & Kenny Barron David Sedaris Front Porch Blues Garden Party Go, Dog, Go! Goodnight Opus Hamlet James Sewell Ballet - Amahl and the Night Visitors Kenny Barron & Conta Brasil Kitty Margolis Late Nite Catechism Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba – Mixed Rep Magpie in Concert Martina McBride Midori with Robert McDonald Mouse and the Motorcycle Music Man Philip Hamilton Randy Sabien & Brian Torff RENT Robert McDonald with Midori Robin Spielberg - An Afternoon of solo piano Stephen Schwartz & Friends SWING! Terence Blanchard WOFA! Youthfest: Daisy Pull It Off Youthfest: Tom Sawyer

Season 12 (2003-2004)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer American College Theater Festival Aquila Theatre: Othello Art of Wine Festival Bobby McFerrin Bowfire Burhan Ocal & The Istanbul Oriental Ensemble The Capitol Steps Cashore Marionettes Chicago City Limits Cirque Eloize – Nomade Comedy Pet Theatre Cyrus Chestnut Trio Dance Theatre of Harlem – Repertoire Night and St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet Fosse Groupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theater Kiss Me Kate The Male Intellect Mass Ensemble Michael Cooper: Masked Marvels & Wondertales Michael Martin Murphy Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel Miss Nelson is Missing Miss Saigon MOMIX – Opus Cactus Montana Repertory Theater: A Streetcar Named Desire Moscow Boys' Choir North Arkansas Symphony - Peter & the Wolf Not Afraid of the Dark The Nutcracker - Tulsa Ballet Oliver Peter Cincotti Samul Nori Terry Gross The Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - Burhan Ocal Vienna Symphony Orchestra Yellow Jackets

Season 13 (2004-2005)

42nd Street Ailey II Alexander is Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater American College Theater Festival Art of Wine Festival Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - Mixed Rep Bernstein Beat - Jamie Bernstein Blind Boys of Alabama – Christmas Show Blues Clues Live The Chieftains Coyote Tales Curtis Stigers Dan Zanes and Friends David Sedaris Dianne Reeves Directions in Music - Featuring: Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove Eliane Elias The Full Monty The Graduate Greg Osby Quartet Guess How Much I Love You Inti-Illimani Jamie Adkins! In Typo Kronos Quartet La Traviata Late Nite Catechism - The Mystery of the Magi's Gold Les Misérables Michael Bublé ODC/San Francisco Dance Company – The Velveteen Rabbit Pilobolus Too Riverdance Ryan Cabrera Tony n' Tina's Wedding The Tuscan Sun Festival Orchestra Wonder Bread Years

Season 14 (2005-2006)

Amos Lee Ancient Dances featuring Wu Man Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar - Festival of India III Art of Wine Festival Ashlee Simpson Astral Project Ballet Hispanico - Mixed Rep BLAST! Brian Lynch & Conrad Herwig - Latin Side of Coltrane Bunk Bed Brothers The Children of Uganda Cirque Eloize - Rain Clifford, The Big Red Dog Doctor Dolittle Dynomo Theatre - Me, Me, Me Frog & His Friends Garrison Keillor Harvey Korman & Tim Conway: Together Again Jane Monheit Joffrey Ballet of Chicago - The Nutcracker L.A. Theatre Works: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial Lily Tomlin Los Folkloristas Luciana Souza Quartet Marcia Ball Mark Morris Dance Group Michael McDonald Miguel Zenon Quartet Oklahoma! Pablo Ziegler's Trio for New Tango Paul Taylor Dance Company Revenge of the Reindeer - Chicago City Limits Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Snowflake Stinky Cheese Man and other Fair(l)y (stoopid) Tales Tap Kids The Will Rogers Follies Turtle Island String Quartet Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favourites

Season 15 (2006-2007)

Ahn Trio: Ahn Plugged AIDA Al Green Art of Wine Festival Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - Mixed Rep Badi Assad Ball in the House Ballet Folklórico de Mexico Bonnie Rideout Scottish Trio Canadian Brass Captain Louie Chiara Civello Daniel Bernard Roumain String Quartet (DBR): A Civil Rights Reader Dave Brubeck Quartet & Ramsey Lewis Trio DBR: A Civil Rights Reader (Daniel Bernard Roumain String Quartet) Denmark's Det Lille Turneteater: Hamlet Discover Theater! Featuring Disney's Cinderella Kids & The Jungle Book Kids Don Byron Plays Junior Walker Dorothy the Dinosaur's Dance Party East Village Opera Company Ed Simon Venezuelan Project Family Poetry Slam with The Mayhem Poets Felix Justice & Danny Glover: An Evening w/Martin & Langston Goodbye Mr. Muffin Hubbard Street Dance Chicago I Can't Stop Loving You I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Jason Mraz Jeff Corwin, Tales from the Field KODO LEGENDS! Mamma Mia! Marie Osmond's The Magic of Christmas The Mayhem Poets - Family Poetry Slam Michael W. Smith New Year's Eve "Eve" Party Not Afraid of the Dark The Nutcracker - Moscow Classical Ballet One Man Star Wars Pat Martino Quartet Pirates of Penzance Pluck! The Producers Second City - Truth, Justice or the American Way Star Keeper STREB – Wild Blue Yonder Tales from the Field with Jeff Corwin THWAK featuring The Umbilical Brothers Vince Gill

Season 16 (2007-2008)

7 Fingers (les 7 doigts de la main): Traces A Year with Frog & Toad Addy: An American Girl Story African Children's Choir Annie Anonymous 4 – long time traveling Arlo Guthrie Art of Wine Festival Beakman Live! Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea & Jack DeJohnette Brooklyn Rider & Yo Yo Ma Cherryholmes Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin & Jack DeJohnette Dave Valentin Flamenco Vivo: On Stage! Fiesta Flamenca and Carmen: El Baile Flat Stanley, Musical Adventures of Go, Dog, Go! Guy Davis – Family Blues Show Hairspray Houston Ballet – Repertory Night and Madame Butterfly Imagine a Moment Irish Chamber Orchestra Jack DeJohnette, Bobby McFerrin & Chick Corea Jesus Christ Superstar Karrin Allyson The Lascivious Biddies Late Nite Catechism 2 Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano: Cinco de Mayo Mavis Staples / North Mississippi All-Stars MOMIX - Best of MOMIX Movin' Out North Mississippi All-Stars / Mavis Staples Peter Pan Ravi Coltrane Quartet Ray Brown Tribute Band Ring of Fire Shaolin Warriors The Snow Dragon Solid Blues STOMP Swimmy, Frederick and Inch by Inch The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The 5 Browns Trisha Yearwood UA Schola Cantorum & Master Chorale – Handel's Messiah & Sing-A-Long Messiah Yo Yo Ma with Brooklyn Rider

Season 17 (2008-2009)

Aquila Theatre: Comedy of Errors Aquila Theatre: The Iliad Art of Wine Festival Avenue Q The Beatles Experience - RAIN Branford Marsalis - Marsalis Brasilianos CeCe Winans: A Holiday Show Chris Thile – Punch Brothers Christmas Carol – University Theatre Cirque Eloize – Nebbia Complexions Dance Company – Mixed Rep David Michalek 's Exhibition: Slow Dancing Drumline Live Fiddler on the Roof The Gruffalo Hot Club of San Francisco Ira Glass: Radio Stories and Other Stories Itzhak Perlman Jamie Baum Septet Jason and the Argonauts Joey DeFrancesco Trio John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett – The Songwriters Tour John Mueller's Winter Dance Party Jungle Jack Hanna LA Theatre Works: Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers with Stacy Keach, John Heard, Susan Sullivan LA Theatre Works: W ar of the Worlds & The Lost World Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montreal - Minus One Lionel Loueke Trio Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt – The Songwriters Tour MacHomer - Rick Miller Magic Tree House: The Musical Mariza Marsalis Brasilianos - Branford Marsalis Monty Python's SPAMALOT Mose Allison Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters National Symphony Orchestra Nobodies of Comedy The Passing Zone The Robert Cray Band San Jose Taiko ScrapArtsMusic Second City - DeFace the Nation Sonny Rollins Spencer's Theater of Illusion Stellaluna Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tango Fire – Mixed Rep TheatreSquared presents Fully Committed Trey McIntyre Project – Mixed Rep US Navy Band Sea Chanters Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favourites Wizard of OZ

Season 18 (2009-2010)

A Year with Frog & Toad Afinidad – Edward Simon & David Binney, Gretchen Parlato, Scott Colley, Antonio Sanchez, Adam Rodgers and Rogerio Boccato American Revival: Celebrating the New Stars of American Roots Music - The Dixie Bee Liners, Sierra Hull & Uncle Earl Art of Wine Festival Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - The Nutcracker Band of the Irish Guards and Pipes of the Royal Regiment of Scotland Bearfoot Bill Engvall Bo Eason - Runt of the Litter Brooklyn Rider and Kayhan Kalhor Chanticleer Charlie Hunter Duo Cyro Baptista's "Banquet of the Spirits" Daisy Mayheim & Rani Arbo David Sedaris The Drowsy Chaperone Frederica von Stade & Samuel Ramey Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny Grease Hairspray Hiromi Uehara The Hobbit Hot Swing Quartet - Mark O'Connor Interpreti Veneziani Jason and the Argonauts Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider Keb' Mo' Ladysmith Black Mambazo Legally Blonde Little Big Town & The Lost Trailers Little House on the Prairie Lost Trailers, The & Little Big Town Luna Negra Dance Theater – Mi Familia/My Dance Man Who Planted Trees Mannheim Steamroller – Christmas Music Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Quartet Mike Rayburn's No Strings Attached MOMIX – Botanica One Night of Queen Peter & the Wolf Rat Pack is Back for the Holidays Riverdance Farewell Performances! Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon Samuel Ramey & Frederica von Stade Second City – 50th Anniversary Tour South Pacific The Spaghetti Western Orchestra Sweet Can Circus Thank You Gregory : A Tribute to the Legends of Tap Tomie De Paola's Strega Nona: The Musical Tower of Power TPO Farfalle (Butterflies) UA Schola Cantorum & Master Chorale – Handel's Messiah University Theatre: Death of a Salesman Wedding Singer ZUM

Season 19 (2010-2011)

100 Years of Broadway Academy of St. Martin in the Fields American Legacies: The Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band Amy Grant Arlo Guthrie Arturo Sandoval Augusta Reed Thomas B.B. King Beakman on the Brain Beauty and the Beast Bill Bryson Blind Boys of Alabama Blue Man Group Canadian Tenors Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Chieftains, The Chris Isaak CND II Composer's Showcase Compania Nacional de Danza II Dala David Sedaris Drumline Live! Ferdinand the Bull Frank Vignola Fulbright Concerto Competition Giggle, Giggle, Quack Harvard Glee Club Icelandic Sheep (Kindur) by TPO Jason Aldean John Pizzarelli Trio Joshua Bell Jubilant Sykes and Alan Chow Julian Lage Group Kathy Mattea Christmas Kenny Barron Trio Kenny G King's Singers Kurt Elling Quintet Les Miserables Little Big Town Maceo Parker Mamma Mia! Martin Short Nobodies of Comedy Omara Portuondo Parson’s Dance Company – Remember Me Peking Acrobats Philharmonia Quartett Berline The Pink Floyd Experience Randy Newman Reasons To Be Pretty Ron White Room on the Broom Second City - Dysfunctional Christmas SONA Opening Concert SPAMALOT Spring Awakening Susan Werner Swimmy, Frederick and Inch by Inch Tango Fire – Tango Inferno The Chieftans The Color Purple The Mikado TheatreSquared presents 39 Steps TheatreSquared presents Sundown Town Thomas & Friends Tierney Sutton Trey McIntyre Project – Mixed Rep UA Chrismas Carol University Theatre: Every Christmas Story Ever Told Vienna Boys Choir Young Frankenstein

Season 20 (2011-2012)

West Side Story Rock of Ages Million Dollar Quartet Circus Oz Mary Poppins Martha Graham Dance Company Munich Symphony-Mozart's Requiem Emerson String Quartet Aquila Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band Mark Morris Dance Group Time for Three TAO: The Art of the Drum San Francisco Jazz Collective: The Music of Stevie Wonder Plus Original Compositions The Whiffenpoofs of Yale Diavolo: Fearful Symmetries Artospher Festival Orchestra James Falea: I Hate Rabbits Holiday Cocktails with Larry Miller Bring It On: The Musical In The Heights Original Tribute to The Blues Brothers The Midtown Men Loretta Lynn Kenny Rogers Christmas and Hits Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Manhattan Transfer- Holiday Show Step Afrika! The Nutcracker by The Moscow Classical Ballet Blue Man Group The Intergalactic Nemesis The Peking Acrobats Alice in Wonderland by Theatre Tout A Trac Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical Harold and the Purple Crayon: A Dance Adventure by Hubbard Street 2 A Brown bear, A Moon and A Caterpillar: Treasured Stories by Eric Carle Milkshake Rene Marie Anat Cohen Tia Fuller Dala Lewis Black: In God We Rust

Season 21 (2012-2013)

American Idiot Anything Goes Art of Wine Artosphere Festival Orchestra Billy Elliot The Musical Caravanserai: Majod Bekkas Gnawa Ensemble with Brahim Fribgane Caravanserai: Orchestra of Fes directed by Mohammed Briouel with Francoise Atlan Catch Me If You Can Circa DanceBrazil Don Williams Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul An Evening with Garrison Keillor Grace Kelly Quintet Gregoire Maret Quartet Gretchen Parlato Guess How Much I Love You & I Love My Little Storybook HAIR Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild LIVE Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran with special guest Candido Camero Jim Brickman On A Winter’s Night LA Theatre Works: Pride and Prejudice Letters Home The Little Prince Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Memphis Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour “55th Anniversary Celebration” Moscow Classical Ballet’s The Nutcracker ODC/Dance presents Unplugged ODC/Dance presents The Velveteen Rabbit One Night of Queen performed by Gary Mullen & The Works Plena Libre Popovich Comedy Pet Theater Potted Potter, The Unauthorized Harry Experience, A Parody by Dan & Jeff Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Creole Christmas Sean Jones Quartet Second City for President Shrek The Musical Sir James Galway, Flute and Lady Jeanne Galway, Flute with pianist Michael McHale and string trio STOMP Tokyo String Quartet War Horse We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Wynonna’s Rockin’ Christmas

Season 22 (2013-2014)

Aaron Diehl Quartet Aaron Neville AnDa Union Artosphere Festival Orchestra with Time for Three Beauty and the Beast Brian Regan Broadway on Ice Catherine Russell Group Cherish the Ladies Chicago Christian Howes Quintet Cirque Ziva Compagnie Käfig The Doobie Brothers Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio Edmar Castañeda Quartet Fluff I Love Lucy Live on Stage The Improvised Shakespeare Company Irving Berlin's White Christmas Jersey Boys LEO Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Mariachi Los Camperos: Fiesta Navidad Mark O’Connor and Friends - An Appalachian Christmas Mnozil Brass Moscow Classical Ballet - The Nutcracker One Man Lord of the Rings Pat Hazell - The Wonder Bread Years RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli: Straighten Up & Fly Right - The Nat King Cole Tribute Ron White Ronnie Milsap Rosanne Cash Shatner's World Sing-A-Long Grease Sing-A-Long Sound of Music Soweta Gospel Choir Still Awake Still Trey McIntyre Project Willie Nelson The Wizard of OZ

Season 23 (2014-2015)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Presented by Visible Fictions) Alonzo King LINES Ballet Artosphere Festival Orchestra The Australian Bee Gees Show The Bad Plus Ballet Arkansas: An Introduction Ballroom with a Twist Beth Stockdale: Trail Mix Bill Engvall Camelot Cameron Carpenter Clarice Assad Trio Clint Black Christmas with You Cyrus Chestnut Quartet: Brubeck Reimagined The Dan Band David Sedaris Disney's Cinderella Dover Quartet Dr. John & The Nite Trippers with Special Guests The Cate Brothers Elf the Musical Elvis Lives The Fruits Funkadesi The Gruffalo's Child Home Free The Hot Sardines I Think I Can Jake Shimabukuro Jayme Stone's Lomax Project Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis: Big Band Holidays Jeanne Robertson Joe Locke Quartet with vocalist Kenny Washington Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Band Kathleen Madigan - Madigan Again Koresh Dance Company Marc Cohn Mediaeval Baebes The Midtown Men Moscow Classical Ballet The Nutcracker MYTHBUSTERS: Behind the Myths New York Standards Quartet Nice Work If You Can Get It Once The Musical The Polar Express Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem Remembered and Rendered: A Ceramic Garden by Katie Sleyman Rhonda Vincent & the Rage The Rocky Horror Picture Show Second City: Nut-Cracking Holiday Review Sid the Science Kid LIVE! Sisters Sweet: Trail Mix Slava's Snowshow So Percussion Spot by Theater Terra Tangram Timber! Cirque Alfonse Ugly Duckling and Tortoise and the Hare Lightwire Theater Wendy Whelan - Restless Creature

Season 24 (2015-2016)

Aizuri Quartet Anat Cohen Quartet Annie Artosphere Festival Orchestra Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Octet BalletBoyz Barefoot Movement Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn Bike Zoo: Trail Mix Blue Man Group Branford Marsalis Brian Regan, presented by Live Nation Bridges of Madison County Cinderella Circa's Carnival of the Animals Classic Albums Live: Abbey Road Cyrille Aimee DakhaBrakha Danu Diana Krall Disney's Beauty & the Beast Egg Eldar Trio Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny Home Free Holiday Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Ira Glass Jim Brickman Holiday Keb Mo Kinky Boots LA Theatre Works: Bram Stoker's Dracula Love That Dog Malpaso Dance Mamma Mia! Mavis Staples with Nick Lowe Me & My Shadow, Patch Theatre Company Menopause the Musical Michael McDonald National Circus and Acrobats of the People's Republic of China A Night with Janis Joplin Okee Dokee Brothers Paragon Ragtime Orchestra Pat Martino Paul Thorn (West St. Live announcement event) Paula Fuga Paula Poundstone Pippin Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Salzburg Marionettes Simone Dinnerstein SoNA's The Snowman Sonos Handbell Ensemble Spin The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart Swingles

Season 25 (2016-2017)

The Acoustic Living Room: Songs and Stories with Kathy Mattea featuring Bill Cooley An Evening with Amy Helm and the Handsome Strangers Art Garfunkle: In Close Up Artosphere Festival Orchestra Barnstorm Theater Company's The Bockety World of Henry and Bucket BODYTRAFFIC The Book of Mormon An Evening with Buddy Guy Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet's The Nutcracker An Evening with Chris Botti Circus Oz Classic Albums Live: Led Zepplin - II Compagnia TPO: The Painted Garden Compagnie Herve KOUBI Croce: Two Generations of American Music The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage Dover Quartet with Avi Avital Edward Simon & Afinidad with Imani Winds Elizabeth Cook Etinne Charles Creole Soul Garrison Keillor A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Greater Tuna Hip Hop Nutcracker, The Jane Monheit: The Ella Fizgereld Centennial Celebration Janoska Ensemble Justin Kauflin Trio Los Lobos An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt The Man Who Planted Trees Manual Cinema's Lula del Ray Marcia Ball Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia: Brown Bear, Brown Bear and other Treasured Stories by Eric Carle Mnozil Brass MOMIX Opus Cactus Motown The Musical MVP Jazz Quartet Naturally 7 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Niyaz presents The Fourth Light Oran Etikin's Timbalooloo Oran Etkin: What's New? Reimagining Benny Goodman Patch Theatre Company's The Moon's a Balloon The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man Sierra Hull SoNA's The Snowman Still on the Hill: Still a River Taj Express: The Bollywood Musical Revue Think Outside the Drum: An Interactive Family Concert Event with Third Coast Percussion Third Coast Percussion Tim Warfield's All-Star Jazzy Christmas A Very Electric Christmas The Way Back Home Wild Kratts - Live! Windmill Theatre's Grug & the Rainbow

Season 26 (2017-2018)

Alicia Olatuja Quintet An American In Paris At This Performance... Ballet Arkansas Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Bela Fleck with Brooklyn Rider Bria Skonberg Cabaret Classic Albums Live: Rumours Charlie Daniels Band Conrad Herwig Danu: Christmas Gathering David Sedaris Diana Krall Donny McCaslin Group Dublin Guitar Quartet Finding Neverland Hot Club of Cowtown I'm With Her Jake Shimabukuro Jason Mraz Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards Joe Ely Duo John McEuen Duo Keb Mo & Taj Mahal The King & I The Latin Jazz All-Stars LeAnn Rimes Martin Sexton Mummenschanz: you and me My Funny Valentine National Acrobats of China Old Crow Medicine Show One Morning I Left... Pasadena Roof Orchestra Peter Yarrow PostSecret Raul Midon RENT Robert Earl Keen Rocky Horror Picture Show Rudolph: The Musical Secret Agent 23 Skidoo Secret Life of Suitcases Sense and Sensibility Shh! We Have A Plan Susan Werner Symphonie Dramatique The Huntertones The Sound of Music Trike Theatre's Charlotte's Web Trike Theatre's Lily's Purple Plastic Purse The Triplets of Belleville Voces8 VoiceJam Competition VoicePlay White Christmas

Season 27 (2018-2019)

6-Wire The Aeolus Quartet - Artosphere AirPlay Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez Duo An Evening with the Zukerman Trio Aquila Theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream Artosphere Festival Orchestra Celebrates: The Moon Artosphere Festival Orchestra's Masterworks of Mendelssohn & Brahms with Corrado Rovaris, Music Director Artosphere Film Series: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apollo 13, E.T., 2001 A Space Odyssey A Beautiful Planet in IMAX - Artosphere Bella Gaia - Artosphere Benny Green Trio with Veronica Swift Boz Scaggs Out of the Blues Tour A Bronx Tale Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet's The Nutcracker CATS Cirque Éloize Saloon Dixie's Tupperware Party Dorrance Dance Dover Quartet - Artosphere The Edge Effect Falsettos George Brooks' Aspada Gretchen Peters Hot Club of San Francisco's Cinema Vivant The Illusionists - Live from Broadway Indigo Girls Jay Leno Jersey Boys Jessica Lang Dance Jimmy Webb Joan Baez Fare Thee Well Tour John McCutcheon The John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet The King's Singers Late Nite Catechism Les Misérables The Lightning Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical Live from Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum with Artosphere Festival Orchestra Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites Michael Andrew: Sinatra and the American Songbook Mission Temple Fireworks Revival feat. Paul Thorn & Band, Blind Boys of Alabama and The McCrary Sisters Molly Tuttle Monterey Jazz Festival 60th Anniversary Tour The Moon Project - Artosphere Mwenso & The Shakes On Your Feet! One Night of Queen Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings & Bill Stewart Trio The Polar Express The Pump and Dump Show Ragamala Dance Company's Written in Water The Rocky Horror Picture Show Royal Wood Ruthie Foster Sam Reider and The Human Hands - Artosphere School of Rock Seraph Brass - Artosphere The Snowman: A Family Concert Stars and Songs by the Fire - Artosphere Still On The Hill: Cane Hill Stories The Story of Everything by Kealoha Take Me To The River: Live! Tall Stories' Emily Brown and the Thing Terrapin Puppet Theatre's You and Me and the Space Between Trike Theatre's Go, Dog. Go! Trike Theatre's Peter Pan Trout Fishing in America - Artosphere VoiceJam Competition Waitress Whose Live Anyway? with Dave Foley, Joel Murray, Greg Proops & Jeff B. Davis!

Season 28 (2019-2020)

A Christmas Story A Year with Frog and Toad Amy Ray Anastasia Ballet Trockadero Blue Man Group Catherine Russell Daniel Tiger Live David Sedaris Escape to Margaritaville Fred Hersch Trio Freddy Cole Quartet Jason Marsalis Jesse Cook Lyle Lovett Martha Redbone Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live Nobuntu Once on this Island Piff The Magic Dragon Randy Rainbow Robert Earl Keen Rocky Horror Picture Show Sideways Stories Socks in the Frying Pan The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged) The Nace Brothers The Nature of Forgetting The Peking Acrobats The Play That Goes Wrong The Snowman The Swingles Tiempo Libre Tim Hawkins Trisha Yearwood

Season 29 (2020-2021)

Art Heist Charming Dover Quartet Emmet Cohen Jontavius Willis Natural State of Mind Paul Thorn The Exiled King The Gospel Truth

Virtual Abha Dixie’s Happy Hour Indie Films India

Screenings 42nd Street Coco Ferngully Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles High Anxiety Hocus Pocus Mia and the Migoo Pitch Perfect Polar Express Rocky Horror Picture Show Strings Attached The Greatest Showman The Sun is Also a Star White Christmas Zarafa

The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
by Kings of Russia
8 minute read

Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.