Sanda Weigl's life is larger than the gypsy lore reflected in her songs. Weigl was born in Romania and began her musical career in a state-sponsored East German rock band called Team 4. As a teenager ...

In Romani, the mother tongue of the Roma and language of gypsies, "balval" means the wind. The name is certainly not ironic: Balval, while not a band of gypsies per se, will blow you away with its ...

Ultrafaux stands out from all of the other Reinhardt-inspired bands because they perform original material: strong tunes played by a hot band- and here the core is augmented by clarinet, violin and ...

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 ...

What do you get when you cross the sounds of a young guy from the Old World with the sounds of an old guy from the New World? The dramatic cry of 25-year-old flamenco singer Diego "El Cigala," who ...

Ruth Margraff traveled the world to learn gypsy music, only to discover that a master player lived just blocks away from her Albany Park home. Juliano Milo, 56, a virtuoso gypsy accordionist and ...