Balkan Gypsy Music: Yuri Yunakov Band

(Past) Sat, Jan 23 at 8 pm Peter Jay Sharp Theatre $25; Members, Children $21; Students $18

Bulgaria's famed saxophonist Yuri Yunakov, of Turkish Romani (Gypsy) ancestry, has enraptured audiences around the world with his electrifying performances of Bulgarian wedding music and Gypsy music from the Balkans. Known for his longtime collaboration with Ivo Papsov, he is the charismatic leader of Romani wedding bands and was a member of WMI's Gypsy Caravan tour. In this program, he and his 6-member ensemble will present Gypsy music from Bulgaria and Macedonia - joyful and ecstatic sounds filled with haunting melodies and dizzying rhythms.

"They played as if Bulgaria's national drink were rocket fuel." --The New York Times

Presented by World Music Institute