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Demiran Ćerimović and his orchestra « The Perles of Vranje » are Rroma living in a small town of Vranje in Southern Serbia. With their traditonnal rroma music, they’ve been playing on all kind of rroma and world music festivals in Serbia and above since 1997. Seven times they won the price of the best brass band rroma orchestra at « Vlasinsko leto » summer festival and twice (in 2002 and 2006) at the famous Guca brass band festival, the most important of its kind in Europe. In 2005 they record their first album together with Tonny Hanna, lebanese singer. In the 2006, the second album "Perles of Vranje". In Guca they meet the famous serbian rroma dancer and singer, Simona Jović, that fights for years for the recognition and the maintenance of the authentic rroma culture. Simona Jović falls in love with their music and they she takes them with her to her European rromani tour. Today, they continue working together, presenting all around the world the authentic rroma music and dances from the Balkans and Central Europe, especially the famous čočeks, tipical for the Vranje area.

Discography :

  • Tonny Hanna & The Jugoslavian Gypsy Brass Band, Elef Records 2005
  • Orkestar Demirana Ćerimovića, Vranjski biseri, Vranje 2003

Official web site http://www.simonajovic.com