Boban Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бобан Марковић) is a Serbian trumpet player and brass ensemble leader from Vladičin Han. He is of Romani background. . Boban Marković Orchestra The Boban Marković ...

A dozen years ago, if someone told me that one of the liveliest, most inventive party albums of the year would come from a band originally associated with wedding celebrations and beer festivals, I ...

Boban Markovic and the Serbian Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands. Long revered as the greatest Balkan gypsy brass orchestra, the third- generation ...

Balkan Brass Father/Son Duo at it Again: Digital Release: Oct. 2; Physical Release: Nov. 10 Clad in a suave white suit, it's not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban ...

The popular image of Eastern European folk--insofar as one exists--does not bode well. Fat men mewling drunkenly over wheezing accordions...lanky-haired perestroika relics in John Lennon glasses...not ...

Friday: 9 p.m., Altria Stage. Saturday: 4 p.m., Altria Stage and 8:15 p.m., Community Foundation Stage. Slavic Soul Party treated local audiences to a taste of Balkan brass music blended with a bit of ...

Long revered as the greatest Balkan Gypsy brass orchestra, the Boban and Marko Markovic Orchestra is led by Boban Markovic, judged the “best trumpet on Earth” at the legendary Guca festival in central ...

When Miles Davis went to the Guca Brass Band Festival, a central Serbian competition that draws over 300,000 people annually, he said "I didn't know you could play the trumpet that way." Trumpeter ...

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