Queens & Kings It was an exciting wait, but now the time has come: The Night Of The Gypsies is back! On Friday, May 25, the Handelsbeurs will be bursting at the seams again with a wild gypsy party. Last year, Fanfare Ciocarlia rocked a sold-out Ha' with panache. This brass band comes from an unsightly village in Romania, where they traditionally play at weddings and other ceremonies. Legend has it that the Fanfare sometimes plays for up to thirty hours at a time.
For their fifth CD, Fanfare Ciocarlia traveled across Europe. More than two dozen musicians, from countries from France to Bulgaria, came together to create “
Queens and Kings,” a rollicking ode to gypsy music. The album was released in February 2007. In 2006, the Fanfare already won a “
BBC Award For World Music”: “
Rising from a reputedly 'invisible' village, Fanfare Ciocarlia, the world's foremost Gypsy brass band, have gone on to create a furious Balkan funk that has set the planet dancing.”Don't let this Night of The Gypsies pass you by, it will be once again a truly astonishing gypsy party!
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"Queens and Kings" celebrates unity in diversity while standing as a testament to the vision of Ioan Ivancea, Fanfare Ciocarlia's clarinet-playing patriarch, who died in October 2006. To Ioan then, a true Gypsy King, this album is dedicated"
Fanfare Ciocarlia about their latest album
