[Balkan music beat]
-This is Sound Check.
I'm John Schafer.
The infectious rhythms
of the Balkans
have left their mark
here in New York.
-Our band was
the first Americans
who ever played at Guča.
-It's this little town in the
middle of nowhere, you know,
and all of a sudden,
people descend upon it.
-The closest thing, I think, to
relate to the US is Woodstock.
[crowds cheer exuberantly]
-This music is very close to the
hearts of most Serbian people,
And people don't necessarily
love Americans, much less
Americans who have appropriated
their national music to provide
this sort of fantasy
world that we live in.
-We are here.
This is real.
Nothing else matters
right now but this.
[music rises, crowds cheer]
