Hackney Empire

Taraf De Haïdouks & Boban Markovic

21 July 2010

Venue: Main House

Price(s): £10 / £15 / £20

An unmissable gypsy music double bill featuring two of the greatest roma groups in the world.

Please, be advised that when booking, you can either select reserved seats in the Upper and Dress Circle (first option) or book unreserved/ standing tickets in the Stalls (second option).

An unmissable gypsy music double bill with two of the greatest roma groups in the world. Featuring the brassy beats of Serbian trumpeter Boban Markovic and the scurrying violins and punchy accordions of Romania’s greatest export, Taraf de Haidouks.

Taraf de Haidouks – literally ‘band of outlaws’ - were the first Balkan Gypsy band to clamber over the fresh ruins of the Berlin Wall and win a Western audience. Discovered in their village of Clejani in south western Romania by Belgian impresario Stephane Karo in 1989, this troup of then-unemployed musicians soon received a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music.

The Boban Markovic Orkestar is widely held to be the greatest of the Balkan gypsy brass bands, and is famed for its contribution to the soundtrack of Emir Kusturica’s Underground. Drawing inspiration from Klezmer, jazz and Latin styles, the Boban Markovic Orkestar also push their music into the future with an infusion of funk – all interpreted with their stunning mixture of exuberance and virtuosity.

‘One of the most celebrated raggle-taggle gypsy bands on the planet'. Songlines on Taraf de Haidouks

‘It’s like being injected intravenously with a life-giving drug.’ Songlines on Boban Markovic

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