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World Music Festival - Chicago Reader review - September 2009

Megitza Quartet:  Bassist and vocalist Malgoritza Babiarz, a Polish highlander, leads this local quartet with jazz guitarist Andreas Kapsalis, accordionist Marek Lichota, and drummer Jamie Gallagher. Though they can do a lot with that lineup, last year's self-released Boleritza also features plenty of guests, among them members of the Black Bear Combo, two violinists, and a clarinetist. The band's sound is a sort of cabaret fusion of several eastern European styles, arch and self-aware, sometimes wanky and sometimes lovely. —MK

Illinois Entertainer review (August 2009)

Megitza Quartet offers an intriguing blend of classical, jazz, and world music on its debut, Boleritza. Although guitarist Andreas Kapsalis’ “17_14″ is the only track with lyrics in English, the exotic music artfully conjures images of campfires, folk tales, and lovers dancing the tango or samba. Vocalist Malgorzata Babiarz is consistently enchanting, whether she’s conveying the beauty of the traditional “Krywaniu” or breezing through her own Latin-flavored “Cisza (Silence).”
– Terrence Flamm