That’s what Cinematic Intelligence Agency called “Gypsy Caravan,” a nearly two-hour documentary that follows a busload of Roma musicians on a triumphant tour across America. That quippy description is ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometime in mid-to-late summer, the Romanian and Ukrainian gypsies came. Their caravan with horse-drawn wagons would come from the ...
Directed by Jasmine Dellal. Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks, Johnny Depp (as himself), Antonio El Pipa, Maharaja and Esma Redzepova. Following five Romani bands from four countries during their ...
A potent combination of ethnography and concert film, Brit helmer Jasmine Dellal's joyous celebration of tzigane music follows the 2001 U.S. "Gypsy Caravan" tour, which showcased five bands from four ...
It’s a complicated proposition, to be at once admired and unpopular. But if you’re a Gypsy musician from Europe, maybe you get used to it. Certainly singer Esma Redzepova seems undaunted. Redzepova, ...
When Minnie Walker fired up her backyard grill in her North St. Louis neighborhood, she always had plenty of company. “They’d smell Minnie’s smoke and had to get over there,” said Earline Walker, ...
Any concert that tries to bring the musical world of the gypsies to a single stage is bound to fail. It can’t be done. The gypsies are scattered across too many countries; they have mastered too many ...
Indie retailer Amoeba Music will launch its own label April 18 with three releases, two of which are from acts associated with the Gypsy swing pioneered by Django Reinhardt in France in the 1930s and ...