Tarafs des Haidouks, I agree, good band, not as nice folks, personaly, but there you are, but a different kind of Roma music, it is the Roma band music, where Kalyi Jag is the singing that would be done around the fire in a circle of Voodrona. After posting this, I was working with a Polish fellow, who spoke almost no English, who said he liked Klesmer, so I put on Kalyi Jag for him, and he was really shocked I had Roma music here, (then I showed him my political posters!) Well, he told me the most touching telling of the story of Paposa, I ever heard. Paposa, for those who don't know, was a polish Romni (Gypsy woman) who was a great poet. She unwittingly aided the Polish government in a program of forced assimilation, then when she saw the results lost her mind.
He said... Paposa... Gypsy... then made as if to write to say she was a writer, then said, "I read," then he dragged his fingers down his cheeks to show her words moved him to tears.
Cheers all,
Larry