MUSIC

Sanda Weigel: Gypsy in a Tree

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
8:30 PM

Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

$20
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There are "can a White man sing the blues?" issues with non-Gypsy performers of Gypsy music. But Romanian former child rock star Sanda Weigl's take on Balkan Gypsy music is good the way the early Stones were good: the rhythms, while losing all subtlety, become harder hitting — and the ironic self-awareness Q is through the ceiling. Meaning, it's not anything like as good as the The Real Thing, but it has its strong compensations.

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