Sunday, September 14 Aurelio only; no Seun Kuti set. Erkan Oğurs Telvin Trio opens. 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music Nicolae Feraru & His Gypsy Band Born, raised, and trained in Romania, where his reputation persists, cimbalom master Nicolae Feraru was granted political asylum in 1988, during the bloody last days of the Ceauşescu regime, and since the mid-90s hes lived in Chicago. Until recently he worked in a dental-equipment factory while maintaining this tight and talented ensemble, which hybridizes eastern European music with jazz; last year he was awarded a NEA National Heritage Fellowship, which the agency calls the nations highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. The cimbalom, similar to but more complex than a hammer dulcimer, is vastly underrated and undeservedly obscure outside eastern Europe, and I dont think Ive ever heard anyone make it sing the way Feraru does (though he and his bandmates make space for other soloists as well). Theyre regulars at the World Music Festival, and they killed it at their Millennium Park show last year
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:52:13 +0000
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