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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Thursday evening, Sept. 28, the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers are sponsoring a workshop at the Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor ...

MC Bean surprised us by proposing the voice of Apolonia Nowak, a living legend of Polish folk music. We chose two of her songs, went into the studio, and started jamming. Her voice isn’t the lead - it ...