The Other Europeans Band is an international gathering of fourteen leading klezmer (Yiddish) and lautari (Roma) musicians. Created and directed by Alan Bern, this new intercultural supergroup creates powerful, deeply emotional and virtuosic music that restores a centuries-old cooperation between two groups who cohabited the same space in present-day Moldova before being torn apart by war, holocaust and immigration. Bringing together some of the most distinguished soloists from seven countries, including Kalman Balogh (cimbalom), Petar Ralchev (accordion) and Alan Bern (accordion, piano) the Other Europeans Band is building new cultural relationships between two peoples who are often considered marginally European, but have played a major role in creating and transmitting European musical traditions. The Other Europeans Band was first produced as part of the EU-funded Other Europeans Project in cooperation with the Cracow Festival of Jewish Culture and the Klezmore Festival Vienna, with help of the Culture Funds of the European Union.