Roma Page

Romani (Gypsy) Culture on the Internet

compiled by Professor Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University,
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/sbalkin/

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Roma Struggles Around the World
“if you like their music, then show concern about the people”

International Roma News from the Czech Republic
http://www.romea.cz/en/ 

Romani radio stations

Romani Singers and Musicians on Youtube

Romani Dance

Other Music Videos

Audio

Video Documentaries about Roma Life

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My Romani Friends on Internet

Key words for searching

Romani radio stations (In re-construction)

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Podcasts (In re-construction)

Articles 

For Troubadours Trapped in Servitude, a Murder Breaks the Bond- NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/asia/india-rajasthan-manganiyars-muslim-musicians-caste.html=p

What U.S. Musical Tradition Can Teach Us About Roma Culture
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/what-us-musical-tradition-can-teach-us-about-roma-culture

Books

Great book by Steve Piskor on the cultural history of Hungarian Gypsy musicans in America: Gypsy Violins.  “This music was brought to America to make our hearts sing.” – Steve Balkin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZsf8aD5hFU
http://www.gypsyviolins.com/

Misc.

To learn about Romani culture (the people, language, history, music, and dance) visit the Amala School for Romani Culture in Valjevo Serbia.
See: https://www.facebook.com/Amala-School-132617216790864/

The Gypsy Lore Society
http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/

 

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Romani Singers and Musicians on youtube

100 Tagu Ciganyzenekar – Brahms Hungarian Dance#5, an emblematic song for Eastern European Romani.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9r9KQX3XU

100 Tagu Ciganyzenekar – Brahms Hungarian Dance#1. Less well known compared to #5 but very beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvQ9lo26SU

Adrian Minune & Raluca Dragan – Noapte de Craciun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNPteurATy8

Andras Varadi and his Gypsy band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s37Xueu7Yrk

Andras Varadi and his Gypsy band 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mwNHM-6VYs

Bangó Margit: Ha bemegyek…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpeBJD9gqak

Baro Ensemble in Ciechocinek Poland 22-7-2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aG9yc_FQjw

Boban Markovic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwAhRti_5dk

Boban Markovic – playing Hava Nagila in Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6ONNhksDY

Bodi Guszti – Romaparde 2 Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz_HTzTICo

Bodi 9 a Lumasza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsjuUfAnjX4

Boskic Pijan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5jx_hqwCE

Bulgarian gypsy – Sevgilim Apaz taifa – Mis Dibi
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bjst7

Carmen Serban – Lubirea Mea Suprema
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21n5t0

Chave Romane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or71XphwlCU

Čierny Balog- Bubamara Slovak Roma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjpwmYMeVck

Cimbalom duet Albert Horvath & Billy Yedla 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PQVkbgVjec

Cirque Romanes – Roma Circus in Paris, great music and acrobatics – for more go to their website: click “Film.”

Constantin Fulgerica in concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8DpkzMM0fY

Continuing Adventures of Taraf de Haidouks (starts at 1:00 min mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGblmv6weg

Costel de la Bolintin – Sarba craiovenilor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K7BxL4vdZ8

CRNO VINO – Padace snjegovi feat.Esma Redzepova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sABrmRA5s4

Cygańskie Gwiazdy(GipsyStars)DonWasyl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GtUFFQeEY

Dark Eyes – Tata Mirando and Rosenberg Trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUPEfa8mk0

Deladap – Angelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4R6ZMFxb2k

Don Wasyl – Polish Roma group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMbwujpZLQ

Don Wasyl- Ore Ore:

Donna Ares – Caje Sukarije – UZIVO live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlboKhj3oIo

Dorado Schmitt at Saint Sarah feast day at Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in France (clip from Latcho Drom)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SbnIO4fcCI

Dorogoi Dlinnoyu – Those were the days – дорогой длинною
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9PO5NQtPZ4

Dragana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm6ZeYI1zFQ

Duj Djene Sam – Bòdi Guszti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWB88YQfzU

Earth Festival Vlasti – Karandila Gypsy Brass Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dktlzaZApwI

Elemér Balogh cimbalom solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vy1R2Itaw

Eliana onie Ilona – Tata Mirando
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZmoyVjnP0

Esma Redzepova – Gypsy Dance

Esma Redzepova – Mangava tut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkIWzjFO2qU

Excerpt from Slovakian Movie, Roma ande chehija,1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ARR9HAZiA&

Fanfare Ciocarlia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTiasW66cU

Fanfare Ciocarlia – Caravan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7W4-DLFEA

Fanfare Ciocarlia – Manea Cu Voca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEIZR0n8ugk

Faramita Lambru – Inel, Inel de Aur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xFD0HxlcA

Fat Mike – My Yiddishe Mama, by Tom Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXODND7TGUY

Fazlija – Ciganska svatba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D49XGEC6MNc

Fekete Szemek – Szosztar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhERTsxvC_4

Ferus Mustafov Show – Dada Sali

Ferus Mustafov Show – Elif Oro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ev4Rw_HL0

Gabi Lunca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14a3GAHr9tI

Gabi Lunca – 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhAY23xf4mY

Gabi Lunca – Cu-o damigeana si-un pahar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvyJzgdnQGs

Gabi Lunca, Ion Onoriu & Toni Iordache
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP6I8-IHFQA

Gabi Lunca, Ion Onoriu & Toni Iordache – Mama mea e florarea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6aHG4pDDqU

George Batyi and Alex Udvary Hungarian Gypsy Concert Detroit:

Gipsies (Cyganie) Skoczny – from Poland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0te4xVlT4p0

Gipsy Heart –biopic of Jimmy Rosenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbzdzxwQOzg

Gipsy Kings – Volare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_TGGgkCLD8

Gipsy music – street musicians in Madrid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShTg1p-A7i8

Gogoas sings Old Mahala Song, Urziceni, Romania, 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Je_w0M5wC0

GROFO 2.resz Lakodalom Gypsy Wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXWYRZXZJo

GROFO 3.resz Lakodalom Gypsy wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ifpyd4xPfg

Gypsies in Warsaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIoY4d1qkKw

Gypsy Karavan Band – Pabol Pabol (lyrics are half-Hungarian and
half-Gypsy with Serbian melody; also good closeups of milk jug
playing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlAiUk3uPyc

Gypsy Passion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-UH4ndu5Q

Horváth Pista&Bangó Margit –
Hungary.  Great hup hup imitation tabla/milk jugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqyjHETr9tA

Horváth Pista&Bangó Margit2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZycq3ubn-c

Hungaria – Yorgui Lofler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obQRZwEsOwg

Ilija Ampevski – Malesevka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08tSvIqlhQ

Ilija Ampevski – Pembe Pembe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1DfkWjfow

ION MIU – The Godfather Of The Cimbalom

Ion Miu-The Godfather In The Cimbalom(part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRU49r9umI

Ionica Minune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl87HWYsOh0

Ionica Minune – 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ecipt6dpok

Ionica Minune / Marian Mexicanu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-VD-2vHVaI

Jammin’ Gypsy boys with a very young Jimmy Rosenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLgtHM5RsZo

Járóka Sándor és Nyári Kálmán
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19SIsI5kyM0

Jaroka Sanyi A KIRALY 30.resz enekel – At a backyard party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLagboTPuls

Jaroka Sanyi A KIRALY- nak muzsikal Balogh Attila es a banda – great music at a Goulash dinner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBG0kUaIB0

Jimmy Rosenberg – Guitar jam with several other Romany guitarists. in the middle playing the dark wood guitar.

Kal (from Serbia) playing at Joe’s Pub in New York City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVyKc1NCAc

Kalinka Volshaninova – Kalina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_334DclUs0

Kállai Kis Ernő
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupxpTeUvhU

Klokhuis – Tata Mirando
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJeewxXzkz0

Krzysztof Krawczyk – My Cyganie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEiaGUesi0Y

Lautari Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8izDEFB-y0

Lautari Wedding, Bucharest, 1998: Part 4 – Gicu Petrache sings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYuuTXI19m4

Le Descendant Hungarian de Bihari – Once Upon a Time in America, by Ennio Morricone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OoqOg4WTQ

Le Descendant Hungarian de Bihari – Schindler’s List
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYikshdLcw

Leonard & Bogdan Iordache
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEBGd4Bh5aY

Ljiljana Stojanovic – Leskovac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwWWfiOhzLA

Ljiljana Stojanovic – Sine Sine (srpska verzija)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZP6cKdBnHg

Marian Mexicanul – Romania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAnUX2MrG6I

Márinka Holubová
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbfycsL1ByM

Mediterranean by Stochelo Rosenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHMvLnxboU

Michael Lee, Gypsy Singer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNsuGiF-N7U

Miki Cortan & Levak at a Roma Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99EYJqOJNE

Miki Cortan on Keyboard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxln2imozqs

Miki Cortan on Keyboard in Romania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r8lXKV3zvo

Milutin Cergar on Accordian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF34wHFfAYg

Misko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxG-HrozTw4

Muharem Serbezovski – Evo Dolazim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRtLZTBHig&feature=related

Muharem Serbezovski – Ljubavna Kletva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9d66r0Y7A&feature=related

Muharem Serbezovski – Tugo Moja

Muharem Serbezovski – Zmija
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di8wCkRwS7c

Nicolae and Laurentiu Feraru play Turceasca – Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBU8Xz5ZoCo

Nicolae Feraru plays a hora – Bucharest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDQT97OXuxk

Nicolae Feraru – Ioane, Ioane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-_WL96_mGw

Nicolae Feraru – Joc de Doi (audio only)
http://youtube.ng/watch?v=QWdxdYinQ2g&feature=plcp

Nicolae Guta – Bum Bum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6eTHXbJUo

Nicolae Guta- Bun Venit in Romania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9caHp_AlJw

Nicolae Guta – Lasa-mi Dragostea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy_PtBNyTOY

Nicolae Guta – Leii Grei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxMK76SbBA

Nicolae si Nicoleta Guta – Num Mai Stiu de Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6–Ec_vx6ks

Nicolae & Nicoleta – Guta Pentru Inima Mea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Uwwh2-V80

Nomy Rosenberg (Jiimmy’s younger brother) playing Van Bergeijk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXes44oriB0

NOTAR MARY – Szazezerszer…. Pengesd a gitart…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKxspK0bT0

Numéro à 3 balles – 2007 – Cirque Romanes – juggler dancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsgu6PzEJVo

Opre Roma Gypsy/Tzigane anthem with English lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66oPikLaoU

Parno Grazst – Este jrok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJ0QUvPAsw

Party with Urziceni Lautari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqkaNkLxqk

Patrycja – Sostar Dukhal
http://www.kolotoc.sk/cz/detail/18583.html#/detail/18583.html

Rada Volshaninova – Palo Veshoro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pit6F_nkL5Q

Rada Volshaninova – Ocharovana Ocaldovanna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpphAL8iG7w

Rada Volshaninova – Osennaya Rossa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mBewxDpvyQ

Rada & Kalinka Volshaninova – Na Posledok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOz2Jhf-FGE

Rajkó Zenekar does Monti’s Csárdás
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr4Pc_CjYEg

Ramko – Harami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9V1QAWGeaY

Ramko Basal Mange Gitaro Hit 1997-2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmCeTvK_s4

Ramko – Tuke Te Vakerav Me Muke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVXNSiVdHM

Ramko i perjan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HEgxAjiazw

Randia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsLgwumcXoE

Róbert Lukács and his Hungarian Roma Band playing Brahms Dance #5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNu6mROJ3Rw

Róbert Lukács and his Hungarian Roma Band playing Holiday for Strings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM8YWuePCvk

Roby Lakatos – In gypsy style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDrBGfJS63Q

Roby Lakatos – Hungarian Dance No 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0xfubmSqM

Roby Lakatos and Ensemble – Deux guitars

Roby Lakatos Ensemble In Bielsko Biała
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGv4KRNGjZI

Roby Lakatos and ensemble play Triste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6r5lg8e4iM

Roma raja – Birthday party music clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bDJ8cQjjM

Roma Trio in Odessa Ukraine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFUTuBfgDgM

Roma Trio in Odessa Ukraine doing Djelem Djelem

Romano Drom – Ustyitete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcJuuGib5GE

Romany Hora Performed by Sergiu Popa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Dz3B-vVVs

Romica Puceanu – As munci la plug si coasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1rkKqdck8

Romica Puceanu – Ce frumoase-s fetele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf2e5gDxe-s

Romica Puceanu – Inimioara, inimioara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3dAIXu7fs

Rosenberg Trio  – group of Stochelo Rosenberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKrP82tKh6k

Rosenberg Trio plays Bossa Dorado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZIQnw_gnZo

Saban Bajramovic – live part 1 and 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcdI1Hqr4aI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEVBJL_C5oE

Saban Bajramovic – Bubamara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6R-NC9LVFc

Saban Bajramovic – Djelem Djelem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVL0BSvSFU

Saban Bajramovic – I Barval Pudela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E3vDRGk47A

Sali Okka – Bulgarian Gypsy Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JNICT78j0

Sandu Ciorba- Papu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB4NExi5uXs

Sandu Ciorba – Nadara, Nadara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANBcfGlF8ug

Sandu Ciorba – Nu Ma Bante Vantule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IM44idPRi4

Sandra Ciorba – Ada Mandra Carabina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_sQgUz2xQ

Suha Balogh József és zenekara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7KTCRNVWg

Sunt un star, sunt barbatu’ mondial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILcCdg-gfd0

Taraf de Haidouks in Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBykBs4vwPw&search=Taraf

Taraf de Haidouks from the movie Latcho Drom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQn6Qb-9mD8

Tata Mirando
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JMNPidPJjw

The Basily boys having fun in Riiswijk, Holland

The Basily Boys in Bijna Beroemd (afl 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2JvkbERSIQ

Tibor Lukács and his Hungarian Roma Band (old)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowNlO9QuPg

Toni Iordache
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-dQvuuvC2o

Toni Iordache – Hora ca la Rudari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiBp4IJNuww&feature=related

Toni Iordache – The King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uqWIMbGJWo&feature=related

Tony Ballog and Alex Udvary gypsy band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CUXCGM8Ho

Tutus Lakatos – singing Brahms 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K24bWNlrbxg

Ukraine romale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQu1a_FFVhc

Usnija Redzepova – A i ti me iznevjeri–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cprOKSF37BI

Usnija Redzepova – Oko Nisa Kisa live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5q5ZawO4Q

Usnija Redzepova – Sta ces da mi das
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5Vngsac5I

Vadász Jenő Bőgőzik E-moll nóta – great Bass Violin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCdPfZkG6M

Váradi Roma Café
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCEi8GRO-MM

Vera Bila, Kale – Amen ft. Chico, Kayha, The Gypsies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nePDpGzyHoc

Vera Bila & Kale – Ma Dza Nikhaj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rYrqm_05rQ

Vera Bila & Kale – Pas o Panori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRr5klYoWU

Viorica de la Clejani – live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odleVZsjnpI

Viorica’s Counting Song, live in Clejani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbfrw3e4724

Viorica si Ionita din Clejani – Vraja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xa_KVkD9gc

Young Jimmy Rosenberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4aVqEVT_c

Zhadan Basillio – Romale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J64zEg-54hw

Zhadan Basillio – 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5YZQtkZt0

Zigeunertrio / Gipsy Trio Kalinka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1JeYxsDi8

Zoltan Maga – Csárdás

Zonzo Noeki Raklo Basily Boys Sinti Gipsy Festival, Django
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzXEq8EOH_c


Facebook: Romany Culture on Facebook – lots of music videos

Beng Romni Gipsy
https://www.facebook.com/ytgipsygoja

Jaisalmer Ayo! Gateway of the Gypsies
https://www.facebook.com/JaisalmerAyo.Gateway.of.the.Gypsies

Open Society Roma Initiatives
https://www.facebook.com/RomaInitiatives

Dance

A Roma party in NY – 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyV0YPi58P4

A Roma party in NY -1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5V21zF3ZtI

Bialy Orzel – Cyganskie – Poland 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0F7TdlGEwY

Cigány tánc – from the village of Királyháza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJh5rf_bgNU

Cigánycsárdás – from the village of Nagypalad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4c__IeE5w

Erdjan Bujanovac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRivKdMbUDw

Erdjan Bujanovac jasaaaa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqiURvCv_s4

Erdjan ramko ruzdi dordmund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eXbSENDRNQ

Erdjan Ruzdi Ramko Ko Bijav Ko Adnani Ko Dortmund -1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XXC4rXZJLc

Erdjan Ruzdi Ramko Ko Bijav Ko Adnani Ko Dortmund -2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJkq8l0YkCA

Flamenco Dancer and band at a small bar in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1BL7gr1syU

Gypsy Dance from Poland

Gipsy – Tsiganochka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RBesh_xKhA

Gypsy Dance in Romania, Cigány Tánc. Eötvös Gergely Táncol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8dtYHfQl4

Inmormantare la tigani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5LWOrQ9Wg

Magyar ciganytanc – Hungarian gypsy dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnA-H3aEfrM

Notar Mary – Hungary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ve0QjgFjU

Peterburgska Roma – Vengerka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEP3Wmc5AA

Rajkó Zenekar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCB_Hn3UBBw

Russian Gypsy Dancer – Serbianka – Romano Khelipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTg1bALA-3w

Sam Wally’s son gypsy wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE9h6k5Ckk

Sam Wallys son gypsy wedding part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1AXCAVwWWA

Sandu Ciorbia – Te Giau Ando Ves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxDS-g54nb4

Zigeunertanz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUihuAUqL-U

Good Replicators

Andreas Oberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnITpsh42Ks

Dessy Dobreva – Dorogoi Dlinnoyu – from Bulgaria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg3XFcXxr94

Music duel: Jewish klezmer vs Gipsy music – Train de vi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQmT1EM0Eg

Goran Bregovic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs51FCW8Vlk&search=Goran

Tapuach b’Davsh – Klezmer Band plays Roma Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99VUjfKlqiQ

Southern Asian Gypsies

BANJARA, The gypsies of Rajasthan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjNNK-KUKg0

BANJARA, The gypsies of Rajasthan – Woman dancers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssae0D3Mw7M

Indian Gypsy Dancers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcJzDB0LBvI

Latcho Drom, Rajasthani gypsies, Talab Khan Barna, “Kaman Garo Kanhaji”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV8trqxz2t0

Rajasthani Gypsy Caravan (Documentary)

Spirit of Asia: Kalbelia: The Dance of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqSYrFI6Cnw

Spirit of Asia: The Cobra Gypsies of Rajasthan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfxijB0ZAKg

Other Music Videos

Bango Margit – My Memories Slide Show with music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DhRJT4duSo

Belbin and Agosto 2005 US Nationals FD – Ice Skate Routine to Russian Gypsy Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HmNYt6vfGk

Csardasfürstin Marika Rökk Spiel Zigeuner – clip from old German movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPigmjg4BVo

Old Gypsy Song With Old Gypsy Pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoZWFNB8Jo

Ramko Nova 2007 – slide show with music – from Macedoni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1TNEjNqlKA

Romane – Gypsy Jazz Guitar Lesson 1/3 – in French with subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VEx8f1n5g

Romane – Gypsy Jazz Guitar Lesson 2/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q1rBtbSAZ8

Romane – Gypsy Jazz Guitar Lesson 3/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3iU0mtcE-0

Singing Sam Gypsy Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbb8JBy9aPI

Webpage of videos of the Prague band, Bengas
http://www.bengas.net/video.php

Gypsy Weddings & Parties From Around the World – slide show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wChQ4AN0_M

Singing Sam – Day Mon Devla So Mongav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02SOTcStVrU

Zigeuner
(You Have Stolen My Heart), by (non-Roma) Marek Weber Tanz-Orch.
Electrola 1933 – non-Roma slide show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgDq_Z_Lxw

Audio

http://www.utoledo.edu/library/carlson/exhibits/gypsy/beginning.htm

Old website of The University of Toledo  Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers, generated under the curatorship of Anthropologist David “Jim” Nemeth

Video Documentaries about Roma Life

Być Cyganem – Documentary in Polish about Polish Roma history and life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONwn6RMY95k

Cirque Romanès : Tzigane et fier de l’être – La Quotidienne – In French Romany Gypsy Circus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDFnNCEtAKA

Cobra Gypsy: Kalbelyas: The Gypsies From Rajasthan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB97tQpQEJs&t=300s

Cobra Gypsies – full documentary (52min) – An adventure with the Indian gypsies, the second movie of Raphael Treza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUYGRn3W9Q&t=4s

Cyganie Karpaccy z Pogranicza Polsko- Słowackiego (In Polish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLOiW9EyuQ

1 a Százért – film about 100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1eHEDW3qBM

Gypsies in Warsaw
http://www.dvbs.eu.org/video/jIoY4d1qkKw/Gypsies-in-Warsaw-Cyganie-w-Warszawie.html

The Gypsies of Vaulx-en-Velin Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-88QTv5mv20

The Struggle for Survival of the Roma People

Gypsy Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zFZFM97_s

Gypsy Caravan US Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lIMu2QMLtQ

Gypsy Caravan: When The Road Bends… World Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0klSpwY0M

Gypsy Music at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7LR45SPL4

Jaisalmer Ayo! Gateways of the Gypsies – Trailer for Doc of nomadic groups in
Rajastan related to the Roma.  DVD is
available.
http://www.artnetwork.com/JaisalmerAyo/trailler.html

Kálmán Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalon Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY8RoEC_w0E&p=2935D69750F6F0B5&playnext=1&index=36

Latcho Drom 10 – Gili (Béga Sitya) – Hungary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLK1qK65p4

Letanovce, osada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7WHKU_UoY

The Lost Music of Rajasthan – BBC documentary (1hr).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_X4bA1CHU

National Geographic Flash Slide Show Presentation with Audio Presentation about Gypsies
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0104/feature4/media.html

Romani Soul Trailer – Through rituals, song and dance, we follow emblematic figure, singer, and “Queen of the Gypsies” Esma Redzepova to Macedonia, south of France, and finally to India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwYrnj1KfJA

 

Films

Gadjo Dilo (full film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gadjo+Dilo
Excerpts from the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD_LsHYWMbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlvRF9tuu1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83q2slH1sjI

Funerals 

Funeral in Chicago 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlZwm8R63yw

Music at a Roma (Gypsy) funeral in Lincoln Park MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeknCi7oyC8

Funeral of a Gypsy violinist in Gherla, Transylvania, Romania

Romani Rap

Emran (Rromano Hip Hop – Romani Gypsy Rap)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SywF18Jx5o

Gipsy.cz – Romano Hip Hop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tseT9oOd4pY

Gipsy.cz – Jednou
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi62IN3KD2E

Gipsy.cz – Lolita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlB-ZtDqTGc

Gypsy Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmR3_WNd6fI

Romano Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP1VB5afiS8

Romano Rap – Happy Birthday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMi4ThphviI&p=4C731788FAED3DC3

U.L., Al-Alion & Emran – Sun Akana Sutka Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhMvfZRo8U&p=4C731788FAED3DC3&playnext=1&index=30

 


My Romani Friends on Internet

Pesha Tshaya – Activist
http://peshasgypsyblog.blogspot.com/

Steve Piskor – Author of Gypsy Violins
http://www.gypsyviolins.com
https://www.facebook.com/gypsyviolins
https://www.youtube.com/user/romachavo

Alex Udvary – Master Cimbalomist:
http://hungarianvirtuoso.com/

 Helper-Advisors

Alex Udvary – Master Cimbalomist:
http://hungarianvirtuoso.com/

Steve Piskor – Author of Gypsy Violins
http://www.gypsyviolins.com
https://www.facebook.com/gypsyviolins
https://www.youtube.com/user/romachavo

Pesha Tshaya – Activist:
http://peshasgypsyblog.blogspot.com/

John Kuo – Director of Balkanske Igre:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=15070756883 ;
 http://www.chicagospringfestival.org/

Aleks Burzynska – Roosevelt University Honors student
2018 Research Assistant
https://www.instagram.com/exotictofu/

Katrina Ji- Artistic Director of Culture Shakti and Organizer of Rajasthani Caravan
http://rajasthanicaravan.weebly.com/about.html
http://www.cultureshakti.commizkatrina2gmail.com
mizkatrina@gmail.com

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Key words for searching:

FROM EUROPE: Cigani, Ciganska, Ciganski, Cigany, Cigano, Ciganyzene, Cygańskie, Cyganie,Cyganka,Cygan, Gipsy, Gypsy, Gypsie, Gitans, Gitano, Gitanos,  Jenische, Kalderash, Kale, Lautari, Manouche, Manouches. Manuches, Manush, Polska Roma, Rom, Roma, Ромалэ, Poma, Руска Рома, Romanes, Romane, Romani, Romale, Romali, Rroma, Romska, Romske, Romano, Romany, Ruska Roma, Servitka Roma, Sinti, , Tzigane, Tsiganes, Xaladitka Roma, Zigeuner, Zigeuner, Zingari

FROM INDIA ( from Paul Polansky): Lohar, Dom, Bawari, Badu, Meos, Beria, Gopsal, Bansberia, Kanjar, Sansi, Gandhila, Biloch, and Kikan.  Also: Banjara, Banjari, Pindari, Bangala, Banjori, Banjuri, Brinjari, Domba, Lamani, Lamadi, Lambani, Labana, Labhani, Lambara, Lavani, Lemadi, Lumadale, Labhani Muka, Goola, Gurmarti, Gormati, Kora, Kalbelia, Kalbeliya, Satiyaa, Maturia, Sugali, Sukali, Tanda, Vanjari, Vanzara, and Wanji.


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