Romanian lautari videotape

[Paul M. Gifford <PGIFFORD...>]

Hopefully this isn't off-topic, because of the relationship of 
klezmer music to Romanian Gypsy music (there are tunes common
to both tradtions and the cimbalom, bass, and clarinet in the 
Romanian tradition probably come from Jewish tradition).

I just completed editing a home video that I made in Romania last 
summer.  It contains about ten discrete groups, almost all music made 
by lautari (musician Gypsies) for other lautari, including a major 
wedding in Bucharest, with a lot of the current "stars," a village 
group, including some old songs, a wedding procession, and five or 
six restaurant groupings in Bucharest.  There are about six violin 
solos, six cimbalom solos, plus accordion, nai, and clarinet solos 
(there is Radu Simion playing "Ce mai foc si ce mai jale," which is
a klezmer standard, plus "Doina Oltului," related to the Jewish 
doina).  It's one hour, forty-eight minutes.  It's not a professional 
video, but is edited and has subtitles.  Cost is $20; send check or 
cash to Paul Gifford, 710 Avon St., Flint, Michigan 48503.

Paul Gifford