CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Even for residents of the Balkans, Guca is inaccessible, obscure. It is a tiny Serbian town – population 2,000. It is nestled in the mountains of western Serbia. The road getting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, gypsy music! The wild violins, the flamenco style guitar, the hammered strings of the cimbalom, the deep rumble of a double bass and the careening clarinet accompanying a tortured voice singing of ...

Trumpeter and bandleader Boban Markovic is a living legend of Balkan brass. Born into the rich Roma musical tradition of Southern Serbia, Markovic has won the Golden Trumpet award in the famous Guca ...

The Boban Markovic 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 trumpeter ...