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, ...
There’s a definitive book yet to be written about the musical inbreeding between African Americans and Eastern Europeans, and Garth Cartwright is too restless to write it. That doesn’t stop the New ...
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 ...
The band’s 2006 debut, “Gulag Orkestar,” mingled Balkan and Gypsy folk music with Parisian cabaret and American indie rock. Zach Condon — then the band’s sole member — played most of the instruments ...
Romanian band Balkan Taksim have spent years exploring the folk music of rural villages and updating it for the electronic generation. Now they’re dismayed to see right-wing politicians seeking to ...
The West Kortright Centre will host a Balkan Romani (gypsy) music concert by Eva Salina and Peter Stan a 3 p.m. Sunday. In their collaboration, Eva Salina on vocals and Peter Stan on accordion “pick ...