A special free family program of Balkan folk music, sponsored by the Friends of the Carmel Valley Library will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27 in the library’s community room. The Dromia ...

Vocalist and percussionist Natalie Nowytski rehearses with Orkestar Bez Ime, an Eastern European folk band, Monday, Mar. 24, 2014 in Minneapolis. The American Composers Forum offered the group a grant ...

Drawing from many Eastern European musical traditions, Taraf de Akácfa performs a broad set of music ranging from danceable Macedonian coceks and complex odd time Bulgarian melodies, to Romanian horas ...

They did the Macedonian mash! Thousands of concert-goers flocked to Park Slope last weekend for a two-day festival of folk music from southeastern Europe that transformed the dance floor of ...

And so we must choose: either identify an interested bassist and initiate him or her to the world of Balkan folk music, or go with Nickolai, who is steeped in the music but has never played the bass.

Zlatne Uste is a folk band, but it doesn’t play Pete Seeger or Joan Baez tunes. The local 12-piece outfit plays the modern folk music of south and central Serbia, Macedonia, northwest Bulgaria, and ...

An unusual musical conversation between a chamber orchestra and players of Balkan folk music comes to Palo Alto this month in the form of a free concert. In playing the three folk pieces that make up ...

Dana Foote, known as her stage name Sir Chloe, exploded onto the scene last year with the single “Michelle” off the debut EP Party Favors. The project came into existence during Foote’s final year of ...

NEW YORK - Here’s a concept: an American-based band that plays music inspired by the folk traditions of the Balkans in southeastern Europe, and that is actually led by someone from that region. This ...

In “god of dirt,” Billy Siegenfeld and his Jump Rhythm Jazz Project take their style born of pop Americana and apply it to the electrifying Balkan folk music of Goran Bregovic. Despite the gritty ...

Romanian band Balkan Taksim have spent years exploring the folk music of rural villages and updating it for the electronic generation. Now they’re dismayed to see right-wing politicians seeking to ...