Iag Bari! Brass on fire! Do you like Fanfare Ciocarlia, Boban Markovic, Orkestar Salijevic, Besh o Drom, Goran Bregovic, Kocani Orkestar and other brass music from Eastern Europe? Then this is the group for you. Report about new releases and upcoming concerts, share your thoughts about brass music, tell us about good sources for CDs and DVDs, etc. Discussion of related music (klezmer, African and Asian brass music, etc.) is encouraged.

The origins of Romany gypsy brass bands are to be found in the Turkish military bands that emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Then, the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans had a considerable influence that can be clearly heard in the music across Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. The art of playing music has been handed down from generation to generation since time immemorial. There is no sheet music. The instruments, bearing the marks of the previous decades, have lost their shine and gained their own patina.