Black Sea Roma Festival
SUNDAY, SEPT 26
Black Sea Roma Festival
A Celebration of Gypsy Music from Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine & Romania
The New York World Festival closes with this exhilarating program featuring the US debut of Mahala Rai Banda, the wild 12-member Roma band comprising musicians from the famed Clejani and Zece Prajini Romanian villages (home of Taraf de Haidouks and Fanfare Ciocarlia respectively); the great Turkish Rom clarinetist Selim Sesler, "the Coltrane of the clarinet" (Guardian, UK) famed for his masterful improvisations, funk-driven wedding songs and dance melodies, joined by the New York Gypsy All-Stars; Técsöi Banda, a raucous family fiddle band making its US debut, providing a rollicking ride through the Ukrainian Carpathians with its multi-ethnic mix of spinning dance tunes, magical improvisations and haunting shepherds' laments; the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble with its electrifying sax solos and dizzying polyrhythmic beat of Bulgarian wedding music; and the DJs Wonderlust who appeared in the 2009 New York Gypsy Festival.
More info here.
Black Sea Roma Festival
A Celebration of Gypsy Music from Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine & Romania
The New York World Festival closes with this exhilarating program featuring the US debut of Mahala Rai Banda, the wild 12-member Roma band comprising musicians from the famed Clejani and Zece Prajini Romanian villages (home of Taraf de Haidouks and Fanfare Ciocarlia respectively); the great Turkish Rom clarinetist Selim Sesler, "the Coltrane of the clarinet" (Guardian, UK) famed for his masterful improvisations, funk-driven wedding songs and dance melodies, joined by the New York Gypsy All-Stars; Técsöi Banda, a raucous family fiddle band making its US debut, providing a rollicking ride through the Ukrainian Carpathians with its multi-ethnic mix of spinning dance tunes, magical improvisations and haunting shepherds' laments; the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble with its electrifying sax solos and dizzying polyrhythmic beat of Bulgarian wedding music; and the DJs Wonderlust who appeared in the 2009 New York Gypsy Festival.
More info here.
