Fanfare Ciocarlia is a popular twelve-piece Balkan Brass and Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prajini. Beginning as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms, Fanfare Ciocarlia decided to establish themselves as a touring band 1996 and have since gone on to perform more than one thousand concerts in more than 50 countries across the globe. With historical roots in Austrian and Turkish military bands, their sound consists of trumpets, tenor and baritone horns, tubas, clarinets, saxophones, bass drum and percussion with lyrics in Romani and Romanian.
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Fanfare Ciocarlia is a popular twelve-piece Balkan Brass and Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prajini. Beginning as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms, Fanfare Ciocarlia decided to establish themselves as a touring band 1996 and have since gone on to perform more than one thousand concerts in more than 50 countries across the globe. With historical roots in Austrian and Turkish military bands, their sound consists of trumpets, tenor and baritone horns, tubas, clarinets, saxophones, bass drum and percussion with lyrics in Romani and Romanian.
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