Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Music and Dance
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Gypsylyrics
This website lists Romani songs with their lyrics and some translations and links to their You Tube videos -
Dances and Music of the
Roma
This web site of Gypsy dancer Simona Jovic shows you colourful photos of Gypsy costume and dance along with details of different dances -
Rombase
You can listen to many music clips at the Rombase web site. Click the 'Music' sections in the menu and then click any speaker symbol at the right of some of the pages - Listen to some songs from travelling people from the North East and Scotland on the Travelling Folk page of NEFA - the North East Folklore Archive
- There are song lyrics and a long article about Gypsy songs, in the booklet accompanying a CD called 'Here's luck to a man ...an anthology of Gypsy songs and music from South-East England' on the site Musical Traditions, the Internet magazine for traditional music throughout the world
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You can find
many more mentions of Gypsy music on the Musical Traditions site, especially
if you use Google to search the site.
At Google, enter the following, exactly as written below, in the Google search box:
gypsy site: http://www.mustrad.org.uk - For even more results, repeat the search but enter the word 'travellers' instead of the word gypsy. Try a third search using the word roma and a fourth using the word romany
- The EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) online shop has a recent CD called 'Travellers Joy: songs of English and Scottish Travellers and Gypsies 1965-2005', a collection of over fifty songs with an accompanying twenty-track CD and supporting information about the music and the singers
- Another CD is 'Songs of the Travelling People', a collection of music and song selected from 'field' recordings made by the famous folk song collector Peter Kennedy between 1951 and 1968. Details are at The Living Tradition web site.
- Continue to E-resources of Music and Dance
Page last updated: 5th February 2021