In Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Romany, the words for counting from 1 to 4 are identical. Romany, an Indic language, has nothing to do with Romania, or Rome: It belongs to the Romany nation (often ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello has been making supercharged music since first forming in 1999, six years after frontman Eugene Hütz landed in the U.S., having fled the Chernobyl disaster in his ...

You could call Ensemble Caprice’s 2007 CD, “Vivaldi and The Baroque Gypsies,” an exercise in compare-and-contrast — but that’s putting it far too dryly. The music, at times, is a ...

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 ...

A listening activity that focuses on how traditional, folk, and classical music influence one another, as exemplified by Sarasate's "Gypsy Airs" (Zieguernewisen). On this show 12-year-old Anna JiEun ...

Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. When and where: 8 p.m. Friday, State Theatre, New Brunswick; 8 p.m. Saturday, Carnegie Hall, New York. How much: $30-$75 in New Brunswick. Call (732) ...