{"id":30963,"date":"2026-01-03T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=30963"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:02:29","slug":"street-musicians-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/street-musicians-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Musicians and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veljko Kajtazi, the president of the Kali Sara Roma Organisation, reacted to the incident that took place on Christmas Eve in Sinj, where Roma trumpeters were removed from the city square after Mayor Miro Bulj stated that their music was not appropriate for the Christmas atmosphere. Kajtazi said that he believed that Bulj had no intention of insulting the Roma community, but he stressed that it is important to remind people of the fact that Roma are part of Croatian society and its tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Roma in Croatia are mostly Catholics, regularly participate in religious life and make pilgrimages to Marian shrines, especially in Marija Bistrica. They also made a significant contribution to the Homeland War,&#8221; Kajtazi emphasized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking about music, he added that Roma musicians have a rich repertoire and that, in addition to traditional Roma songs, they also perform Christmas songs. \u201cMy Roma can play \u2018Jingle Bells\u2019 and \u2018Ederlezi\u2019, especially when they are hired,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kajtazi: \u201eMoji Romi znaju svirati i \u2018Jingle Bells\u2019 i \u2018Ederlezi\u2019, osobito kada ih se anga\u017eira\u201c. In: Reporter. 28.12.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.hr\/kajtazi-moji-romi-znaju-svirati-i-jingle-bells-i-ederlezi-osobito-kada-ih-se-angazira\/#google_vignette\">https:\/\/reporter.hr\/kajtazi-moji-romi-znaju-svirati-i-jingle-bells-i-ederlezi-osobito-kada-ih-se-angazira\/#google_vignette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veljko Kajtazi, the president of the Kali Sara Roma Organisation, reacted to the incident that took place on Christmas Eve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FB_IMG_1766952133868-2048x1146.jpg.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[610,14],"tags":[92,9,91],"class_list":["post-30963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-croatia","category-news-eastern-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-music","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FB_IMG_1766952133868-2048x1146.jpg.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30966,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions\/30966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}