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Balkan Romani songs and accordion. Free to children under 12 and parents/caregivers. Adult concert is at 7:30.

“The record is a triumph. Salina sings passionately and powerfully. The instrumentation — which features Peter Stan’s magical accordion work — is marvelous.” – No Depression For the last few songs of the second set, Eva and Peter will be joined by the West Philadelphia Orchestra. http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/concert-16-09-25/

Playing household items — pots, cans, and spoons — alongside conventional instruments like guitar, violin, bass, and drums, Romano Drom is one of the most prominent representives of contemporary Roma (“Gypsy”) culture in Hungary. They play original compositions in the Olah Romani language in arrangements that integrate Tsollar, Lovar, Beash, and Romanian melodies with modern music from many parts of the world: Catalan rumba and Arabic and Balkan rhythms.

With a diverse line-up of professional Philadelphia musicians whose influences range from Sun Ra to Bulgarian brass bands, West Philadelphia Orchestra is a unique live ensemble in today’s auto-tuned musical world. They began playing Romanian ballads, Macedonian folk-dance songs, Bulgarian wedding music, and klezmer in late 2006, and have continued expanding their repertoire of Eastern European music.

Crossroads welcomes back three musical groups to explore the connections between musics of Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Bosphorus and beyond. Turkish singer and oud player İsmail Hakkı Fencioğlu and innovative klezmer band Shtreiml will perform a mostly Turkish set, highlighting some of the musical and historical relationships between Turkish and Eastern European music, while the West Philadelphia Orchestra, their neighborhood’s own village band, will contribute brass band music from the Balkans.