In anticipation of Goran Bregovic & His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra's June 17 show at the Bass Concert Hall, Austin Public Library will be screening five films that have been scored by the Balkan ...

Goran Bregovic is a Balkan rock superstar, composer, band leader and creator of dazzling scores for Emir Kusturica's films Time of the Gypsies, Underground and Arizona Dream. In 2008 he performed at ...

Born to a Croatian father and Serb mother, composer-guitarist-bandleader Goran Bregovic brews a jolting stew of Balkan traditions that demonstrate -- often in a hilariously raucous way -- the deep ...

Goran Bregovic calls Gypsy music "a metaphor for that part of the soul that defies gravity." That sense of being transported describes the effect he has on fans - not only on his former Yugoslavian ...

There’s probably nobody who’s done more to popularize eastern European Gypsy music than Goran Bregovic: his sound tracks to Emir Kusturica films like Time of the Gypsies and Underground introduced the ...

No one could confuse PlayhouseSquare with a Balkan bar. But Goran Bregovic came close. On Monday, June 15, the rocker-turned-Gypsy-bandleader transformed the Ohio Theatre into a Balkan dance party as ...

A few decades ago, Goran Bregovic was just a rock star. His band, Bijelo Dugme (White Button), was considered the Led Zeppelin of Yugoslavia during the 1970s and ’80s. Bregovic’s life and music took ...

When civil war started inexorably ripping Yugoslavia apart at the seams in 1990, Goran Bregovic found himself out of the rock-star business. As the founder of Bijelo Dugme (White Button), the ...