Event

15th Annual Roma Festival - California Herdeljezi

Saturday May 7 - Herdeljezi Stage
10:30 am -8:00 pm, Ives Park - RAIN OR SHINE !
(if rain, next door in Veterans Building, 282 South High St.) Vocal, clarinet workshops are pay at the door at 10:30am The Festival begins at 12pm and tickets are $18, students & seniors pay $15 at the gate only.(12 and under free, no one turned away for lack of funds) Included in the Festival ticket price is a dance workshop, live music, dancing. You can purchase authentic Romani food by George Adams, handcrafts by Threads That Connect Us (VoR sewing project), henna art and there will be our famous kafana. Performers and teachers include: Rumen Shopov, Cele Paskoski, Chris Bajmakovich, Inspector Gadje brass band, Vadim Kolpakov and VIA Romen, Gypsy Boys (Paul and George Stevens) and Danny Fender, Sani and Benji Rifati, Petra Gelbart, Stefka Kamburova. HERDELJEZI is a traditional Romani (Gypsy) neighborhood celebration announcing the end of the cold indoor season and the beginning of the warmer season of movement and outdoor life. Survival from the winter and the seasonal renewal of life is celebrated at Herdeljezi through the sharing of music, dance, food and community.