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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Between globalFEST, Winter Jazz Fest and APAP Conference, there is a lot of interesting non-traditional-rock music going on in NYC in January. Additionally, there’s the 2015 edition of Brooklyn’s The ...
When Sarajevo native Roni Bomboni came to Chicago in mid-90’s during The Bosnian War, he set out to do one thing only - to form a band of Gypsy Punks and Balkan Pimps, fronted by him - The Balkan ...
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 ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The man who calls himself Beirut has never seen Lebanon. His debut album, Gulag Orkestar, is steeped in the music of the Balkans but he ...
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 ...
106 Every Night I Wander About (Save Rat Daje Me Pirava) / Esma Redzepova, Stevo Teodosievski Folk Ensemble 201 Romany Horo (Romano Oro) / Esma Redzepova, Stevo Teodosievski Folk Ensemble 204 Shiptar ...