Bands that play weddings generally are not revered in America’s music culture. But in Bulgaria, wedding music is renowned–and four masters of the form will show off their chops Friday at the Old Town ...

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 ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...

Discordant brass notes escape from a rehearsal room in Sliven's gypsy ghetto, as 15 local boys prepare for band practice and take a break from the poverty-stricken life of the slum outside. "Now boys ...

Goran Bregovic calls Gypsy music "a metaphor for that part of the soul that defies gravity." That sense of being transported describes the effect he has on fans - not only on his former Yugoslavian ...

In the 1970s and ’80s many Bulgarian musicians lived in fear of serving prison time: as part of a depressing communist-era attempt to foster national unity, ethnic music, particularly Turkish and ...

Summertime and the living is frenzied in Paris's trendy nightclub neighborhood of Pigalle. Where absinthe-swigging artists, musicians and cabaret singers once swarmed to watch the can-can girls raise ...

As a recipe for Gypsy music goulash, Friday night’s concert by the Northwest Sinfonietta in Benaroya Hall seemed a little gentrified: a dash of czardas, a late-classical symphony, a sweet romantic ...

It’s easy to understand the allure of Gypsy music. It evokes a certain amount of vagabond romanticism that comes from a culture of people who have wandered for generations. There is also a passion in ...