A long wedding night in the Carpathians

"Ya-ka-sha" is a Romanian dance cry and means "This is life!"

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Romani musicians in Romania, ca. 1970s

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Gypsy fiddler from Sic, Romania, 1974

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Musicians from Szentes, Hungary, 1898

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Tavern in the outskirts of Bucharest, 1934

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Gypsy musicians in Baranya County, southern Hungary, 1901

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Jewish "Purimshpiler" musicians in military uniform, Knyszyn, Poland, 1897

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Klezmer musicians in Ukraine, 1912

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Klezmorim in Minsk, Belarus, 1920s

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Musicians at the head of a wedding parade in the Horodenka Raion, western Ukraine, 1960s

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Gypsy musicians in Budapest, Hungary, 1937

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Hutsul musicians, Carpatho-Ukraine

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Gypsy musicians in Poland, 1920s

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Gypsy musicians in Romania, folk painting

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Turkish musicians, Bucharest, Romania, 1938

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Klezmer musicians in David Gorodok, southwestern Belarus, 1920s

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A fiddler and a Kobzar in Romania

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Klezmer band in Congress Poland, Russian Empire, ca. 1900