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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)

Four years and countless remixes after the release of their the debut album, here’s “Ghetto Blasters”. The new album is a mix of all that good stuff in the Balkan music: great percussion and vocals, mesmerizing solos, all on top of raw, syncopated brass straight from the Mahala’s of Bucharest.

Ghetto Blasters medley

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Listen to some of the new songs on their myspace page.  Watch out for “Zuki Zuki” and “Nu mai beu”. CD released on October 16th on Asphalt Tango.