Roby Lakatos Ensemble at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame

The Romani or gypsy sound fascinated 19th-century composers like Liszt and Brahms. Lakotas enchants with that sublimely romantic classical music seamlessly blended with jazz, pop, Broadway and film scores into one sweeping, dramatic, hyper-kinetic Gypsy rave. Lakatos is technically amazing in blazingly fast solos and slow sections of notes that sustain to reach the deepest recesses of the hall. On everything from Michel Legrand to Fats Waller to Piazzola, a crack young band and Lakatos (with his signature handlebar mustache) won't disappoint.