Penguin Cafe folds in sounds from around the world and throughout music history — Africa, Kraftwerk, Brazil and Franz Schubert. The music of Penguin Cafe is like no other. Its origins date back to the ...

Penguin Cafe continues in the tradition of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, producing individualistic minimalist music using acoustic instruments. Previous album The Inconstant Sea (Erased Tapes Records ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. With piano at its core, sparingly embellished by melodica, glockenspiel, ...

“Simon stopped us sounding naff,” was cellist Helen Liebmann’s blunt conclusion. As a performing entity, the idiosyncratic Penguin formation – with its uncategorisable blend of ethnic folk, minimalist ...

Composer Arthur Jeffes started Penguin Cafe in 2009 to pay homage to his father Simon Jeffes' Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and to continue the concept. While the new band still plays some of the original ...

Kelly Fontenot stood outside the Penguin Cafe on Wednesday morning, her arms full with two pitchers of freshly brewed coffee. She offered some to anyone waiting. Almost every table was occupied, with ...

Note: Final installment in our weeklong, Fourth of July-inspired series on Orange County diners. Previous installments are at the end of this post. Just mention MTV “reality” show “Laguna Beach: The ...

The music of Penguin Cafe is like no other. Its origins date back to the early '70s, within fever dreams Simon Jeffes had that were brought on by food poisoning. In those dreams he imagined a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The only people I’ve shown the Penguin Cafe Orchestra to are Diana and Stephen. Both had vastly ...