A wedding without Roma music was quite unimaginable to the ancestors of today’s Slovaks. The catchy rhythms, swift movements and colourful fabrics of the dancers’ clothes are still the first things ...

THE SERBIAN Boban Markovic Orkestar will perform in Bratislava on April 3 with authentic Slovak Roma musicians from the Phurikane Giľa (Ancient Roma Songs) project. The concert takes place at the ...

SKOPJE, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, September 27 (UNHCR) - Esma Redzepova Teodosievska is known around the Balkans region as the Queen of Roma Music. A Roma born in Skopje with Jewish, ...

The ongoing Etnosoi festival is bringing an abundance of music from around the world to Helsinki, Espoo and Tampere. Among those in the spotlight this year is the music of one of Finland's oldest ...

About 30 young musicians are blowing and plucking, making music in a school hall in Newham, east London. But this orchestra is playing nothing but Roma music from Romania, Slovakia and Poland. The ...

If you've never been to Mexico City, that is what the streets sound like. They are full of music in the form of vendors selling their wares with songs that they make up, others using whistles to ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

On 8 April, the Roma gypsy community in Scotland celebrate a day dedicated to their culture and way of life. Music and song is part of every day Roma life, with children learning to play a variety of ...