We did very little reading on this journey. So, on our last day, lets catch up with this article about Romany Gypsy musicians in Romania - they recommend this is a 7 min read:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/intelligent-travel/2014/03/04/great-read-roma-rhapsody/
Keep you learning hat on, and do get your instrument as I'm about to teach you one more Romanian traditional folk dance, which will be the last traditional item on our Romania discovery Journey: Promoroaca
Remember, to learn more Romanian pieces, there is a nice selection of Balkan sheet music available at
If you are really interested in more details, then I may share the lecture I provided for a Turkish Culture organisation a little while ago:
One other type of music, in which you need to touch base with for a more comprehensive Romanian music exploration is Manele - loved by some, hated by others, but present at most modern weddings.
Lets start with the old manele, with the most famous Romany
manele singers: Adrian Minune:
On my real Romanian travel in 2012, I travelled with a young girl in her old Trabbie up and down the country, listening loudly to Adrian, and it was fun...
Here some more modern manele, from a wedding - sounds/noises which you will hear every summer weekend from each corner in Bucharest, where a wedding is takes place:
And now lets conclude with a total corruption of everyone's taste, with this cheesy sample of manele:
Lets leave Romania in party-style. May I invite you to dance along to another of my all-time-favourite performance songs: Tutti Frutti, made famous by the Tony Gatlif movie Gadjo Dilo. Here performed with my band Tatcho Drom in Hartney Whitney:
Happy Dancing, Bye Bye Romania, and lets see where tomorrow's cyber travel will take us to...
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