Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra (BGKO) is the evolution of former Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra.After so much intense work and growth, we responded to an urge to expand our artistic horizons. While we remain very interested in Klezmer music, we also want to gather inspiration from a wider spectrum of genres. Balkan music is, for us, a set of musical traditions and multiethnic cultures that surpass geographical confines, drawing on the historical traditions that have forever inhabited these lands: Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Gypsies, Ottomans, Arabs...In October 2019, Sandra Sangiao leaves the band after 7 years being our singer. The current BGKO is formed by Margherita Abita (voice, Italy), Mattia Schirosa (accordion, Italy), Ivan Kovaevi (doublebass, Serbia), Julien Chanal (guitar, France), Stelios Togias (percussion, Greece) , Daniel Carbonell (clarinet, Catalonia-Spain) and Oleksandr Sora (violin, Ukraine) / Pere Nolasc Turu (violin, Catalonia-Spain)