Many thanks to Mr. Robert Fuhrer for submitting the article of Jennifer Baron.
By age 12, the three Baron kids were proficient on traditional tamburitza instruments such as the prim, tambura and bas-prim,
and were put to work playing at weddings (the photo is from 1930, Braddock, USA).
Their parents are from Croatia's capital Zagreb
Three Baron kids proficient on traditional Croatian tamburitza instruments
Location: Braddock
Date: 1930
This photograph depicts my grandfather Joseph Louis Baron (November 6, 1918 - June 4, 2012) on the left, my great-aunt Caroline, who is still alive and living in Verona, PA and in her late 90s, and my great-uncle John, on the right. The three siblings played music together growing up in Braddock, PA, in the Baron family's Croatian tamburitza band, which was led by my great-grandfather John.
By age 12, the three Baron kids were proficient on traditional tamburitza instruments such as the prim, tambura and bas-prim, and were put to work playing at weddings, apartments or wherever my great-grandfather could hire them out (places where shots of whiskey apparently flowed during breaks).
A tamburitza musician, US Steel employee, guard for the first official West Virginia All-State Basketball Team, and a member of the Army, my grandpa was born in 1918 to John and Helena Baron, immigrants from Zagreb, Croatia, who carved out a life in Braddock, in a rented flat near Pittsburgh's burgeoning steel mills. I often try to recount the many stories my "gramps" told us over his 94 years on this planet.
Such as tales about my great-grandfather, an extremely strict disciplinarian who ruled their house with an iron hand. The family scratched out a living by renting out a room to boarders who worked shift work at the local mills--and the beds in that room were always filled with a rotating cast of laborers.
Jennifer Baron
Source www.nowseethis.org
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Kolo igra, tamburica svira, beautiful song by Bunjevci Croatians in the region of Bačka near the Danube river.
Tamburitza performances for the Cleveland Croatian Cultural Garden.
Here we take the opportunity to provide a few more details about early Croatian tamburitza bands in the USA. It would be of great interest to try to collect more photos and details about Croatian music in the USA. For example, are the titles of songs that Croatian tamburitzans played in 1919 for general Pershing known? Or maybe even recorded?
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