Consisting of some of New York City's finest jazz musicians, Slavic Soul Party is a romp through Balkan folk music. The nine-piece band mixes the "messed-up" rhythms of the Balkans with gypsy music, ...
The Boban Markovic Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands. Long revered as the greatest Balkan gypsy brass orchestra, the third- generation trumpeter ...
No one could confuse PlayhouseSquare with a Balkan bar. But Goran Bregovic came close. On Monday, June 15, the rocker-turned-Gypsy-bandleader transformed the Ohio Theatre into a Balkan dance party as ...
Assistant Editor Ryan Bradley’s weekly exploration of great global music, in collaboration with Nat Geo Music. Gypsy music is ancient and, like many very old things, has its roots in India. Its people ...
Dancefloor-rockin’ NYC gypsy-punks Balkan Beat Box have released a new song off their upcoming album, Blue Eyed Black Boy, due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. Download “War Again” below — a SPIN.com ...
Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...
Zach Condon is a young singer-songwriter who grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., but whose musical interests have looked abroad. His debut, which drew on Balkan gypsy music, was a surprise hit among ...
Clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski has already broken new ground several times in his short career. Best known as the driving force behind the New York Gypsy All Stars, he’s the first Roma reed ...