Corina Sîrghi & Jean Americanu’ Taraf

Corina Sîrghi, backed by the traditional all-acoustic taraf (ensemble) led by Shaun Williams aka Jean Americanu on accordion and featuring virtuoso lăutar (fiddler musician) Laurențiu Feraru, cimbalom virtuoso Nicolae Feraru and double bass player Ciprian Răducanu, summons the smoky parlors of 1930s Bucharest and the mahala (slum) block parties of the 1990s with a mix of passionate romances, sultry tangos, fiery lăutar dances, and raucous manele (urban folklore) classics in a concert that will tame even the most troubled of hearts.

Taraful Jean Americanu was founded by Ohio-born American ethnomusicologist Shaun Williams, who moved to Romania for his doctoral research in traditional Romanian music.