Family P
Clejani lăutari
Taraf de Haïdouks
Romanian Roma — Clejani, Wallachia
Style: Lăutărească
Village lăutari of Clejani. The taraf that became Taraf de Haïdouks on a world stage. Wedding and listening music — doina, hora, baladă.
Clejani is a lăutar village. Families there played Wallachian weddings for generations. Ethnomusicologists recorded them in the interwar years and Speranța Rădulescu in 1983. After 1989, Stéphane Karo and Michel Winter (Crammed Discs, Belgium) assembled a taraf for the West as Taraf de Haïdouks — first album 1991. Wikipedia’s member list (filed here as that list, not a parish book): Nicolae Neacșu “Culai” violin (1924–Sept 2002); Dumitru Baicu “Cacurică” cimbalom (1931–Sept 2007); Ion Manole “Șaică” violin (1920–May 2002); Ilie Iorga voice (1928–June 2012, from Mârșă near Clejani); Gheorghe Anghel “Caliu” violin; Gheorghe Fălcaru “Fluierici” flute and bass (1954–Sept 2016); and others on the Taraf page. Neacșu’s birthplace is on Later (Clejani vs Isaccea).
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
Nicolae Neacșu (Culai)
Violin, voice · 1924–2002
Clejani taraf. Birthplace disputed — Later.
Generation 2
Dumitru Baicu (Cacurică)
Cimbalom, voice · 1931–2007
Generation 3
Ion Manole (Șaică)
Violin, voice · 1920–2002
Generation 4
Ilie Iorga
Voice · 1928–2012
Mârșă, near Clejani.
Generation 5
Gheorghe Anghel (Caliu)
Violin
Generation 6
Gheorghe Fălcaru (Fluierici)
Flute, double bass · 1954–2016
Generation 7
Taraf de Haïdouks (Clejani)
Taraf — village lăutari · public from 1991
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
1989
New orchestra
Clejani on a world stage
Taraf de Haïdouks
Village lăutari, already a wedding taraf, now a festival name.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Serban — Romanian Roma — Brăila → Scheveningen / Amsterdam / Delft
- Zece Prăjini — Romanian Roma — Zece Prăjini, Moldavia
- Puceanu — Romanian Roma — Bucharest, urban lăutărească
- Luncă — Romanian Roma — Vărbilău, Prahova / Bucharest
- Mahala Rai Banda — Romanian Roma — Bucharest