Nicolae Feraru (b. 1950) was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2013. A musician’s musician, he is a brilliant cimbalom player who has triumphed over great hardship. Feraru was born to a large Roma (Gypsy) family of lautari (musicians) in Bucharest, Romania. His father played the cobza, a lute, and the tambal mic, … Read More
