For almost 15 years, the French band Les Yeux Noirs (The Black Eyes) has been energetically spreading its own brand of Yiddish and Gypsy music around the entire world. At the core of the septet are ...

Jews and Gypsies share a calamitous history in Europe, a centuries-long saga that climaxed with the Third Reich’s genocidal plan. But the two peoples were intertwined long before the Nazis set out to ...

Rolando Arrieta profiles the French musical group, "Dark Eyes," (Les Yeux Noirs), which performs Gypsy and Jewish music on acoustic and electric instruments. Singer and violinist Erik Slabiak and his ...

For your visual pleasure, close your eyes and picture this: John Shaft meets the Yiddish Romani Gypsy underworld. Let's just say if, and a big IF indeed, the 1970s black exploitation film character, ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Les Yeux Noirs ("The Black Eyes"), a French ...

“Mon fils je vais te chanter une petite chanson,” (My son, I will sing for you a little song) a female voice with a pronounced accent whispered in the speakers, welcoming the audience to the Les Yeux ...

Eric and Olivier Slabiak were both classically trained on the violin at the Brussels Conservatory, but when these Jewish brothers discovered the American klezmer revival, they fell in love with the ...

The imaginary community is a popular folk-music trope: consider the U.K.’s Imagined Village, in which morris dancers swing their staves to dubbed-up Caribbean rhythms, or banjo virtuoso Jayme Stone’s ...

Though this Parisian band blends French Gypsy jazz, Rom music, and klezmer, last January the siblings at the heart of the group–Olivier Slabiak, who plays violin and sings, and his brother Eric, who ...