Fanfare Ciocărlia is one of the world’s greatest gypsy brass bands, a 10-legged Balkan brass beast whose eastern funk groove and Balkan brass sound has torn up halls and festivals across the planet. Their energetic performances and musical ingenuity have attracted fans from Bucharest to Brasilia, Melbourne to Memphis, and Guangzhou to GROUNDS.

Anyone who has heard Fanfare Ciocărlia can agree on one thing – no brass band has ever played as fast as this before. Make that two things: no brass band had ever sounded like this before! Characterised by breakneck speed, technical chops, ripping rhythms, sweet and sour horns, these combined elements separate them from any other brass band on earth.

Fanfare Ciocărlia have released ten albums, several of which have topped the European World Music charts and their DVD “Brass On Fire” was acclaimed by Songlines magazine as “setting a new standard for music documentaries”. They have played over 3000 concerts world-wide, and put simply: nobody does it better, harder, faster, funkier than Fanfare Ciocărlia.