Gypsy music fans of New York unite! Get out of your tiny one bedroom share and go hear these intrepid explorers of gypsy music play their renditions of your favorite songs such as Loli Phabay and Manea Cu Voca. What, you can't hum them by heart? Well, you obviously haven't heard Romashka play recently.
Romashka is a fantastic troupe of local musicians who keep the melodies and songs of traditional gypsy music alive. Clarinet, accordion, saxophone, trumpet, sultry vocals and grooving rythms in 9/8 prevail as these folks rock the night.
Romashka plays Gypsy music from Russia, Romania, and beyond. The musicians are a wild bunch of virtuoso rhythm-throttling chop-splitting Brooklyn-dwelling world music aficionados, who have gigged around the world in various Gypsy, Klezmer, Balkan, jazz, funk, ska and rock ensembles. Whether playing for wedding guests, experienced folk dancers or twenty-something hipsters, the band channels their raw musical energy to create an infectious intense Eastern European gypsy dance party experience.
Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance Party Band was born in fits and torrents in the fall of 2003. Roaming from cafes and all-night jams, to apartment parties and subway stops, the band quickly catapulted to pulsating clubs and underground parties, drawing a loyal - and swiftly growing - following from downtown party revellers and outer-borough-dwelling ethnic communities alike.
