A female Roma, or Gypsy, band in Serbia has used music to preach women's empowerment within their community. Formed in 2014, “Pretty Loud” symbolically seeks to give a louder voice to Roma girls, ...

Šaban Bajramović, known as the “King of Gypsy music,” died on Sunday in Niš, his hometown in Southern Serbia of a heart attack. Here's a sample of what the blogosphere has been saying about him and ...

Boban Markovic and the Serbian 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 ...

GUCA, Yugoslavia — The smells at the legendary Guca brass band festival reach visitors long before the music: smoke from open fires, roasting piglets, seared lamb and stewed cabbage. “It smells of ...

Ruth Margraff traveled the world to learn gypsy music, only to discover that a master player lived just blocks away from her Albany Park home. Juliano Milo, 56, a virtuoso gypsy accordionist and ...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Their songs are about “women chained” in abuse witnessed by generations, or teenage brides being forced into marriage by their fathers. And they tell women to seek love, fight ...

Ruth Margraff traveled the world to learn gypsy music, only to discover that a master player lived just blocks away from her Albany Park home. Juliano Milo, 56, a virtuoso gypsy accordionist and ...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Their songs are about “women chained” in abuse witnessed by generations, or teenage brides being forced into marriage by their fathers. And they tell women to seek love, fight ...