One of New York’s Most Consistently Exciting Concert Series Continues
The 2010 edition of the NY Gypsy Festival is underway and we are off to an A-MA-ZING start. The Black Sea Roma Festival, which was held at Central Park SummerStage on Sunday, attracted over 4,500 attendees that danced away to a diverse line-up led by Mahala Rai Banda. The night before we took a cruise around Manhattan with the Clipper City Sailboat and gypsy beats provided by DJs Wonderlust. Our opening night with Selim Sesler & NY Gypsy All-Stars, which was sold out, took place at the relaunched Drom on Friday.Please join us for the second week of shows featuring music from Spain (flamenco), India, the Balkans and France (a special Django Reinhardt tribute). But don't take it just from us, here's what the press had to write for this year's festival:
"Year after year, the NY Gypsy Festival remains one of New York’s most consistently exciting concert series." - LUCID CULTURE BLOG
"It’s impossible to pick just one highlight of this excellent bill of Gypsy music, but the newsiest is Mahala Rai Banda, a Romanian group making its American debut." - THE NEW YORK TIMES
"New York Gypsy Festival celebrates music inspired by people on the move … already billed as the largest Gypsy music event of the year" - NJ STAR-LEDGER
"Leavening boisterous horns and drums with Euro-pop sass, Bucharest's Mahala Rai Banda headlines the sixth annual New York Gypsy Festival's afternoon-long cornerstone concert." - VILLAGE VOICE