Balkan Beat Box will be playing in Portland at Dante’s on Friday, September 12th. The last time they were scheduled to play Portland they had to cancel, as they were held up by immigration issues at the Canadian border. We won’t have to worry about that happening this time, as they are coming up through California, and won’t be crossing any international borders right before their Portland show this time. Anjali and I had the chance to meet Ori Kaplan when we played Mehanata with Joro-Boro last year, but we haven’t seen the band live yet, so we are glad to see they rescheduled a Portland show after their last unfortunate cancellation.