The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Lucian Ban, is another very good example of how the jazz aesthetic of personal expression be applied to other music ...

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 ...

Mariana Iatagan, a great Romanian Traditional Folk Singer, will be the guest singer for the Summerville Music Club on Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m. The program will be presented at St. Luke’s Lutheran ...

Words fail me with Dirty Shirt. Calling them “Romanian folk metal” or “folk-hardcore fusion” doesn’t do them justice, given the weird European rock and pop influences going on here. Imagine Xibalba ...

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 ...

Did you know that the author of Albania’s national anthem was a Pole born in Bukovina? Or at least, he had Polish roots. Ciprian Porumbescu, a genius composer and a distant ancestor of the poet ...

The back room at Balliceaux is filled with complimentary cups of Kool-Aid-red borscht. No, we aren’t all about to lie down and sleep until the comet arrives — but everyone here is ready to join the ...

The collaboration began after Subcarpați’s producer, Marius Andrei Alexe, known as Bean MC, expressed his fascination with Polish folk music. The single also features the voice of Apolonia Nowak, a ...

Electra is one of the oldest existing plays in Western literature. Some version of it is attributed to each of ancient Greeks' towering tragedians: Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. Through the ...

Museums of ethnic folk arts are often small and predictable. But then there is the Romanian Folk Art Museum. It is small, but the experience is not run of the mill. Located at 2526 Ridgeway Ave. in a ...

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 ...