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Boban Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бобан Марковић) is a Serbian trumpet player and brass ensemble leader from Vladičin Han. He is of Romani background. . Boban Marković Orchestra The Boban Marković ...

The popular image of Eastern European folk--insofar as one exists--does not bode well. Fat men mewling drunkenly over wheezing accordions...lanky-haired perestroika relics in John Lennon glasses...not ...

Balkan Brass Father/Son Duo at it Again: Digital Release: Oct. 2; Physical Release: Nov. 10 Clad in a suave white suit, it's not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Even for residents of the Balkans, Guca is inaccessible, obscure. It is a tiny Serbian town – population 2,000. It is nestled in the mountains of western Serbia. The road getting ...

Friday: 9 p.m., Altria Stage. Saturday: 4 p.m., Altria Stage and 8:15 p.m., Community Foundation Stage. Slavic Soul Party treated local audiences to a taste of Balkan brass music blended with a bit of ...

A new album puts a Serbian band's wild, genre-bending flair on full display. Serbia's Markovic Orkestar Breaks Boundaries With Brass Serbia's Markovic Orkestar Breaks Boundaries With Brass Serbia's ...

Boban Markovic and his son, prized protégé Marko, have managed the nigh-impossible: Leaping from a deeply rooted Roma (Gypsy) scene in Serbia, they have ignited hip club dancefloors, innovating ...

Two musical juggernauts that have been hurtling through time for centuries touched down together at New York City’s Knitting Factory resulting in the creation of a new musical culture; “The ...

A dozen years ago, if someone told me that one of the liveliest, most inventive party albums of the year would come from a band originally associated with wedding celebrations and beer festivals, I ...