The programme is a joyful tribute to gypsy music, a style known for its emotional depth, raw energy and expressive freedom. Often romanticised yet deeply rooted in tradition, gypsy melodies have ...

Taraf de Haidouks, a Romanian band of violin virtuosos (who count Johnny Depp among their devotees) tie everything together with their magic strings.

Sharing Taraf's Belgian management and record label, Mahala Rai Banda are a younger outfit who mix manele - a synthesised Gypsy pop-dance music hugely popular in Romania - with horns and violins ...

Chatting in Kronos' rehearsal space near Golden Gate Park, Harrington describes a solo performed by the Romanian group's "wild man violin player," Anghel "Caliu" Gheorghe, preserved for posterity ...

George Enescu, the Romanian composer, violinist and pianist, created an entire sonata (his Violin Sonata No 3) based upon it.

Johnny Depp took some time out from touring with the Hollywood Vampires to immerse himself deep in Romanian culture on Sunday. Depp – who visited "Dracula's Castle" high in the Transylvanian ...

Mournfully scraping a broken string across a violin or merrily skittering through a wedding tune, the 18-piece ensemble, ranging in age from 22 to 80, embodies every gadjo image of gypsy music.

“He was a fiddlerhis first violin teacher, if you could even call it that, was a Gypsy fiddler,” says Curtis.