Balogh Kálmán’s dulcimer band – existing for the past fifteen years – is as open to the Balkan vocal and instrumental dance music, as it is to jazz. Although the instrumentation is based on the central role of the dulcimer, there’s also light cast on the other instruments: contrabass, violin, guitar and the horn section. Furthermore, they show new tones from album to album: while Roma vándor and Aroma were remarkable for overcoming the geographical and artistic restrictions, Gipsy Colours joined vocal and instrumental Gipsy music in one. Moreover, they made a new album titled Aven Shavale, rich in improvisation and jazzy overtones, with a slightly reorganized line-up. These may be more than overtones; they can be called an emphasis, which crops up as often as the northern Romanian and Balkan influence. To sum up, it’s an excellent cross section of everything that makes Balogh Kálmán’s dulcimer special, not forgetting what a great role playing at restaurants has in Gipsy music traditions. There’ll be a few evergreens from Gipsy and Hungarian songs, so everything is given for starting the 2008 program of the World Music Stage in excellent atmosphere.