Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 7:30 pm Romano Drom - Contemporary Roma music from Budapest
"Larynx-straining ecstatic male vocals." - fRoots "Distinct and personal, yet traditional Roma sound." - Budapest Times at Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church), Philadelphia Video, tickets ($10-30), and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Playing household items — pots, cans, and spoons — alongside conventional instruments like guitar, violin, bass, and drums, Romano Drom is one of the most prominent representives of contemporary Roma (“Gypsy”) culture in Hungary. Since 1999, they have travelled the world from Korea to Norway, Canada to Serbia, and Ukraine to Portugal, becoming one of the most sought after Roma bands. Romano Drom (Road of the Roma) play original compositions in the Olah Romani language in arrangements that integrate Tsollar, Lovar, Beash, and Romanian melodies with modern music from many parts of the world: Catalan rumba and Arabic and Balkan rhythms. Singer-guitarist-composer Antal “Anti” Kovacs’ founded Romano Drom in 1999 with his father, Antal “Gojma” Kovacs (1951-2005), a singer and dancer at the heart of a great revival of Olah music and culture at the end of the 20th century. Their repertoire ranges from songs from childhood that are rarely performed now to new compositions on both contemporary political issues affecting European Roma and lighter subjects like love and drinking with friends. Their profound emotions, energy, and honesty carry on the traditions of their ancestors while attesting to the vitality and relevance of modern Roma culture in the face of marginalization and oppression. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Romano Drom's U.S. tour is made possible in part by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and presented in association with the Balassi Institute-Hungarian Cultural Center ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
