Ionela Guzic – vocals Peter Bonos – trumpet Balder ten Cate – cimbalom Zina Pozen – accordion Asaf Ophir – clarinet Travis Hendrix – bass Ivan Velev – percussion ABOUT THE ARTISTS Ionela Guzic is a ...

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 ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The intricate weave of Mat Maneri’s raspy viola and Lucian Ban’s full-bodied piano has been a jazz pleasure for ...

On Thursday evening, Sept. 28, the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers are sponsoring a workshop at the Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, with Roberto Bagnoli, of Rome, Italy, teaching folk dances from ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

Daga Gregorowicz of Dagadana told Radio Poland how the band collaborated with Romania’s Subcarpați on their new song, ...

Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American ...

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) is organizing through its foreign representations a series of events dedicated to the Universal Day of the Romanian Folk Blouse - Ia Day, which is marked every ...