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Thinking about summer travel and wanting to hit as many Balkan parties as I could, I researched the Gypsy or Balkan music festivals in Europe and US for the next few months.  Here’s the list I came up with.  If you know of any other ones please let me know.

I just created a permanent ‘Festivals’ page here.

NYC

NY gypsy tabor – acoustic festival and camp June 11-13 Brooklyn, NY

NY gypsy tabor main festival.   August , Brooklyn, NY

NYC Gypsy Festival September, Brooklyn, NY

Europe

Balkan Trafik – 8, 9 and 10 April 2010, Bruxelles, Belgium

• Gaetano Fabri
• Toni Gatiff
• Robert Soko
• Kal
• Brass Bands, Movies, etc

Kaiviertel Fest – 14-15 May 2010,  Salzburg, Austria

• Besh O Drom
• La Cherga

Gypsy Lyon Festival – 18 – 23 May 2010, Lyon, France

• Sinti Swing
• Gypsy Brass Bands

Khamoro – 23-29 May 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

• Gipsy.cz / Czech Republic
• Mahala Rai Banda / Romania
• Orkestar Braka Kadrievi/Macedonia
• Romano Atmo/France
• Romano Stilo/Slovakia
• other traditional and jazz Gypsy bands

Nattjazz -  May 26 – June 1st  Bergen, Norway

• Fanfare Ciocarlia
• Buena Vista Social Club
• other world music bands

International Gypsy Festival-  29, 30 May, Tilburg Netherlands

• Mahala Rai Banda
• Olah Gipsy Allstars
• La Caravane Passe
• Carmen Fernandez
• Gypsy Groovz Orchestra

Festival of World Cultures - 23-25 July, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland

• Mahala Rai Banda

InterEtno – Subotica Serbia (Kal)  – no program for this year yet

IRAF – International Romani Art Festival – July 22-25 Timisoara, Romania

On last year’s program:

• Zdob si Zdub
• Kal
• Paco Pena
• Mitsoura
• [dunkelbunt]

Festival du bout du monde – 6, 7, 8 Aug, Crozon, France.

• Kal
• Warsaw Village Band
• Gothan Project
• lots of spanish bands as well.

Guca – August 13-22, Guca, Serbia

• Goran Bregovic

Sziget – August 11-16 Budapest, Hungary

FESTIVAL KUMPANIA, ARGEIN, FRANCE  03.09.2010

• Shazalakazoo

On last year’s schedule:

• Romano Drom (Hungary)
• Nadara Gypsy Band (Romania)
• Terne Chave (Czeck Républik)
• Antwerp Gypsy Ska Orkestra (Belgium)
• Pad Brapad Moujika (France)
• Slivo Electric Klub (France)
• La Kumpania Beats (France)
• Le Cri Du Choeur (France)

Produced for the dance floors of Melbourne and Berlin, DJ Delay’s new release “Brass, Wires and Bass” gives an electronic spin to already famous Balkan dance floor bangers. The lineup includes some of the most well established Balkan music artists: [dunkelbunt], Boban Markovic, Gaetano Fabri and Max Pashm among others.

Kebab Connection is one of the best remixes of this Balkan hit. The deep bass is giving a more dancehall feeling to the song.

Od Scra still mostly keeps its authentic acoustic brass band sound but the nicely placed effects and and edits make it a much more effective song for the dancefloor. Really entertaining.

Finally, a really good version of Gaetano Fabri’s Smart Gypsy, this remix builds up the tempo nicely, making for a great party starter.
Smart Gypsy – dj delay remix by dj Gaetano Fabri

You can listen to the whole compilation below or buy it on iTunes.