TCHA LIMBERGER – MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST.. AND VIRTUOSO ON MOST OF THEM. Since picking up his first instrument the guitar, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger is one of a handful ...

The best-known gypsy band in the world, Fanfare Ciocarlia started life as a village wedding band in the remote mountains of north-east Romania. Awarded BBC Radio 3's World Music Award For Europe, they ...

The hair of the bow gently caresses the string, catching an "A" high on the upper register. Then, in a series of sweeping glissandos, it descends the diatonic scale in a minor mode. I am caught in its ...

A death in the family meant the great gypsy guitarist Fapy Lafertin, a musician who has performed at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival at regular intervals in its 33-year history, had to cancel on Saturday ...