ZINGARESCA guitar duo – Kumushka

Please SUBSCRIBE: Zingaresca Guitar Duo: Vadim Kolpakov & Oleg Timofeyev – Russian or sometimes called “Gypsy” seven-string guitar. Video clip on the song “Кумушка-Godmother“ from the Zingaresca CD Video recorded in March, 2017 by Lyubov Abramova in Charlotte, NC. In Italian, the word “Zingaresca” means a “Gypsy melody” or “music, written in the Gypsy style.” ZINGARESCA Guitar Duo consists of Oleg Timofeyev, the pioneer in the revival of the Russian seven-string guitar, and the celebrated Russian-Roma (Gypsy) virtuoso Vadim Kolpakov. For more information on ZINGARESCA and booking visit Russian-Gypsy guitar tradition goes back to the 18th century when the first Sokolovsky Gypsy choir (Russian “Соколовский хор“) was founded by the Count Orlov-Chesmensky in the 1770s who called on Ivan Sokolov, leader of the Roma (Gypsies) among his serfs, to perform at his estat