PRAGUE, Czech Republic — She’s a big personality from a country where gypsies are persona non grata. Vera Bila belts out her trademark fusion of gypsy music laced with Latin, jazz and pop influences ...

In Romani, the mother tongue of the Roma and language of gypsies, "balval" means the wind. The name is certainly not ironic: Balval, while not a band of gypsies per se, will blow you away with its ...

For centuries, word that the gypsies were coming meant hiding your belongings and locking the door. If the gypsies were already there, it meant lighting torches and driving them out. In fact, for many ...

Sanda Weigl's life is larger than the gypsy lore reflected in her songs. Weigl was born in Romania and began her musical career in a state-sponsored East German rock band called Team 4. As a teenager ...

What do you get when you cross the sounds of a young guy from the Old World with the sounds of an old guy from the New World? The dramatic cry of 25-year-old flamenco singer Diego "El Cigala," who ...

Ultrafaux stands out from all of the other Reinhardt-inspired bands because they perform original material: strong tunes played by a hot band- and here the core is augmented by clarinet, violin and ...

Ruth Margraff traveled the world to learn gypsy music, only to discover that a master player lived just blocks away from her Albany Park home. Juliano Milo, 56, a virtuoso gypsy accordionist and ...