THE FAIR
This album is the first in a series of discs showing our relationship to music in Moldva. On this CD we play arrangements based on the traditional music of many ethnicities that have lived in this region. The place where the unbelievable mixture of Moldavians, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians, Serbs, Russians, Germans, Jews, Gipsies, Armenians, Poles and Tatars could meet repularly were the fairs. Moldva, being a buffer zone of many cultures even today, has seen many great fairs during a year. We invite you, dear listener, to a fair in a town now called Jasi, to 1782. Imagine the Greek merchant arguing with the peasant from Maramures, the Bulgarian vagabond painting the town red with a Gipsy girl, a young Csángó couple trying to sell the litte they have...
