The distinctive Roma music genre halgató, known for its slow, mournful songs, could soon be added to Czechia‘s list of ...

While Roma people are the largest ethnic minority in Czechia, comprising about 2.2 percent of its population, they are considered one of the most stigmatized and discriminated minorities in the nation ...

SKOPJE, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, September 27 (UNHCR) - Esma Redzepova Teodosievska is known around the Balkans region as the Queen of Roma Music. A Roma born in Skopje with Jewish, ...

They wrote to her: “You’re a gadžovka (a non-Roma woman). You’ll never be one of us. It’s not in your blood.” Singer and musician Júlia Kozáková never wanted to be anyone else. As a non-Roma artist ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

Two ensembles will combine their musical talents for an evening concert at the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 1. The Kálmán Balogh Gipsy Cimbalom Band and the ...

Through music, an all-Roma girl band in Serbia is fighting against stereotypes, discrimination and the scourge of child marriage. By the age of 17, Zlata Ristic had a husband and child. In 2020, aged ...