In the late 80s, Belgian producers Stefan Karo and Michel Winter were so inspired by field recordings of Romanian Gypsy music released by the superb French folkloric label Ocora that they set off for ...

Yes, both groups in the Gypsy Crossings concert have Gypsy ties; Bireli Lagrene was born into a Gypsy community in the Alsatian region of France and Taraf de Haidouks consists of 12 bona fide Gypsies ...

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About 30 seconds into the Taraf de Haidouks’ first number at Marsee Auditorium on Saturday, the word that kept coming to mind was “Wow!” Starting at a tempo that would have locked up the fingers of ...

Amidst a world-music landscape now teeming with Balkan gypsy influences, describing this f ted Band of Brigands as seminal hardly covers it. Taraf de Haidouks are a multi-generational repository of ...

From the wilds of Romania, the frenetic band of musicians that is Taraf de Haïdouks play the instruments of their fathers and grandfathers: violins, accordians, double basses, and the cimbalom, a ...