These bands are Balkan up! Park Slope’s ornate Grand Prospect Hall will shake with the rollicking sounds of the Balkans on Jan. 15 and 16. Brooklyn’s own Raya Brass Band will be among the 60 vibrant ...

Raya Brass Band does it on the dance floor, mashing up the music of Eastern Europe with American dance grooves. Featuring odd meters, unusual scales and a fine helping of gorgeous Balkan and Romany ...

The Boban Markovic Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands. Long revered as the greatest Balkan gypsy brass orchestra, the combo, featuring the ...

World-music DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on All Things Considered to share the music he's been playing on Global Village, the show he hosts on KPFK in Los Angeles. This week, Arcos brings four ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Sam Dechenne was an aspiring trumpet player, still in junior high school, when he ...

Between globalFEST, Winter Jazz Fest and APAP Conference, there is a lot of interesting non-traditional-rock music going on in NYC in January. Additionally, there’s the 2015 edition of Brooklyn’s The ...

If you’ve ever visited the Pittonkatonk May Day Brass BBQ Potluck Picnic, the fifth annual incarnation will be broadly familiar: Bands playing outdoors for free in Schenley Park, with plenty of food ...

Clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski has already broken new ground several times in his short career. Best known as the driving force behind the New York Gypsy All Stars, he’s the first Roma reed ...

The Boban Markovic Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands. Long revered as the greatest Balkan gypsy brass orchestra, the third- generation trumpeter ...

From a mashup of funk and jazz out of Brooklyn to funky circus music from the Oaxaca Mountains, hear world-music DJ Betto Arcos' globe-spanning... Balkan Brass Band Favorites From 'Global Village' ...

World-music DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on All Things Considered to share the music he's been playing on Global Village, the show he hosts on KPFK in Los Angeles. This week, Arcos brings four ...