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The young Macedonian / Turkish clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski follows up his unforgettable performance with the Clarinet All- Stars during the NY Gypsy Festival with another all-star session of jazz-inflected Turkish, Balkan and Mediterranean Romani (Gypsy) songs, The All-Stars showcases some of NY's finest musicians including Tamer Pinarbasi from Turkey on kunun, Panogiotis Andreu from Greece on bass; Seido Salifoski from Macedonia on percussion/darbouka, Manu Koch ..board and Jordan Pearlman from Philadelphia on drums, who have performed with such world music icons as Turkish clarinet master Husnu Senendirici, and Bulgarian masters Ivo Popasov and Yuri Yanakov.
The group is the brainchild of Serdar Ilhan, producer of the New York Gypsy Festival, which offers a broad perspective on various styles of Gypsy music and dance against the backdrop of New York City which, being the crossroads of many cultures, is essentially Gypsy at heart.

$5 cover