No one could confuse PlayhouseSquare with a Balkan bar. But Goran Bregovic came close. On Monday, June 15, the rocker-turned-Gypsy-bandleader transformed the Ohio Theatre into a Balkan dance party as ...

Once the former Yugoslavia's biggest rock star, he received international acclaim when he embraced the Gypsy rhythms of his native Balkans on soundtracks for Emir Kusturica's films Twenty-five years ...

Goran Bregovic calls Gypsy music "a metaphor for that part of the soul that defies gravity." That sense of being transported describes the effect he has on fans - not only on his former Yugoslavian ...

On his current tour of the United States, Goran Bregovic is performing music he has recorded with Gogol Bordello, Gipsy Kings and other gypsy musicians for release in February. Bregovic and his 19-m… ...

According to the Walt Disney Concert Hall program, there were four separate elements to the Goran Bregovic and His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra concert Wednesday night: a five-piece Gypsy Brass band, ...

A tiny village nestled in the mountains of western Serbia hardly seems like an epicenter for world music. It boasts 3,000 inhabitants. A handful of winding roads. Even fewer inns. But for one weekend ...

Goran Bregovic creates music for beginnings and endings. That explains, in part, why he leads a large ensemble called the Wedding and Funeral Orchestra. While these two events - the union and the ...

When civil war started inexorably ripping Yugoslavia apart at the seams in 1990, Goran Bregovic found himself out of the rock-star business. As the founder of Bijelo Dugme (White Button), the ...

A few decades ago, Goran Bregovic was just a rock star. His band, Bijelo Dugme (White Button), was considered the Led Zeppelin of Yugoslavia during the 1970s and ’80s. Bregovic’s life and music took ...

In the strange case of the incredible shrinking band Goran Bregovic's 2008 Wedding and Funeral Orchestra comprised 37 people. Two years ago it was down to 19, and now to nine. In pessimistic ...