You can get the whole of the Dome dancing if you encore for an hour and Saturday night audiences can never have too much trumpet.

Those are the two lessons gleaned from this fantastic one-off double bill, an unlikely teaming of a cult young duo from Albuquerque with a gipsy wedding band from Macedonia.

Putting aside their sometime line in funereal folk, Hansel and Gretel-esque pair A Hawk And A Hacksaw joined their accordion and violin with the expertly outlandish skills of Budapest quartet The Hun Hangar Ensemble.

Balkan tunes careered along madly and changed tack at full throttle, making way for a frantic duel between the two trumpeters and several extraordinary solos on the cymbalom, a dulcimer like instrument which, from the stalls, looked like a man hitting a small, ornate drawing table with knitting needles.

A seven-man line of crisp chinos, short sleeved shirts and gleaming valves, the Kocani Orkestar served up a whirlwind of brass, brass and more brass, pausing only to wipe sweat from their brows, release cascades of spit from their instruments and film each other's solos on a miniature camera.

Bandleader King Naat Veliov trilled on his trumpet while Papa Hikmet Veliov danced with comical delicacy and carried his gigantic bass tuba like a snail's shell.

By the time they'd elaborated on every brass riff known to Romany kind, even the shyest audience members were offering up a few experimental knee bends.

No wonder Macedonia enjoys one of the lowest divorce rates in the world.