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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
World Music Institute presents
Sunday, September 26, 2010 1:30 pm
Black Sea Roma Festival
A Celebration of Gypsy Music from Turkey, Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria
New York’s Roma (Gypsy) musical concert of the year! Featured are the US debut of Mahala Rai Banda, a wild 12-member Roma band comprising musicians from the famed Clejani and Zece Prajini Romanian villages, (home of Taraf de Haidouks and Fanfare Ciocarlia repectively); the great Turkish Rom clarinetist Selim Sesler, "the Coltrane of the clarinet" (Guardian) famed for his masterful improvisations, funk-driven wedding songs and dance melodies, joined by the NY Gypsy All-Stars; Técsöi Banda, a raucous family fiddle band making its US debut, providing a rollicking ride through the Ukrainian Carpathians with its multi-ethnic mix of spinning dance tunes, magical improvisations and haunting shepherds' laments; the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble with its electrifying sax solos and dizzying polyrhythmic beat of Bulgarian wedding music; and the DJs Wonderlust that appeared in the 2009 New York Gypsy Festival.
“ (Yuri Yunakov Ensemble) played as if Bulgaria’s national drink were rocket fuel.” – New York Times
$10.00 Suggested Donation
Central Park SummerStage
Rumsey Playfield (enter the park at 69th St. and 5th Avenue)
Trains: 6 to 68th or 77th Sts; N,R, or W to 5th Ave, F to 63rd St; 1,2,3,B,C to 72nd St.
summerstage.org
Rain or Shine.
1:30 - 3:00PM Bulgarian and Turkish Roma Dance Workshops (co-presented by Lotus Fine Arts)
3:00 - 7:00PM Concert
Co-presented with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the NY Gypsy Festival & SummerStage
Major funding for New York World Festival - Music Around the Black Sea is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Heritage and Preservation. Additional funding for the Sept 20, Sept 25, and Sept 26 programs is provided by the Open Society Institute under the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015. Funding for the Black Sea Roma Festival is also provided by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
“ (Yuri Yunakov Ensemble) played as if Bulgaria’s national drink were rocket fuel.” – New York Times
$10.00 Suggested Donation
Central Park SummerStage
Rumsey Playfield (enter the park at 69th St. and 5th Avenue)
Trains: 6 to 68th or 77th Sts; N,R, or W to 5th Ave, F to 63rd St; 1,2,3,B,C to 72nd St.
summerstage.org
Rain or Shine.
1:30 - 3:00PM Bulgarian and Turkish Roma Dance Workshops (co-presented by Lotus Fine Arts)
3:00 - 7:00PM Concert
Co-presented with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the NY Gypsy Festival & SummerStage
Major funding for New York World Festival - Music Around the Black Sea is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Heritage and Preservation. Additional funding for the Sept 20, Sept 25, and Sept 26 programs is provided by the Open Society Institute under the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015. Funding for the Black Sea Roma Festival is also provided by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
