Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. So it’s something to both celebrate and ruminate upon, that on Tuesday night I was reviewing a gig at which the guitar was undisputed king, whereas last ...

After centuries of diaspora, Balkan Gypsy music has arrived in a big way. Mahala Raï Banda is a new group from the Gypsy ghetto of Bucharest. For a culture that has faced such adversity, this is a ...

Hundreds of Romanian and foreign tourists danced, on Thursday night, in the Cetatea Sighisoara Square, to the tunes of the songs performed during the ProEtnica Intercultural Festival by the Mahala Rai ...

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When Romania’s Romany pop supergroup Mahala Rai Banda set cimbaloms skanking a few years ago on “Balkan Reggae,” reggae DJs around Europe perked up and started dropping the track into their sets. The ...

When the Mahala Raï Banda, an energized and raucous Gypsy folk dance band, plays the Bailey Performance Center in Kennesaw, it will be a pointed reminder that in the confluence of ethnic and political ...

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But first up we were treated to homegrown Balkan boogie merchants The Trans-Siberian March Band. You wouldn’t think that a band that raided the dressing-up box with such carefree abandon, or ran a mid ...

After centuries of diaspora, Balkan Gypsy music has arrived in a big way. Mahala Raï Banda is a new group from the Gypsy ghetto of Buchares ...

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