Bulgaria, a beautiful mountain-filled country with great wine, ski slopes and the Black Sea's best beaches, sometimes gets lost amidst the Eastern Europe stars like Croatia, Czech Republic or Hungary.

Bulgarika, a traditional Bulgarian folk band, will be at Synapsis, 1675 Union St., Eureka, on Oct. 18. Award-winning vocalist and teacher, Donka Koleva, sings traditional songs from various regions of ...

It was near closing time at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, and Kathryn Mitchell was totally captivated. While home for the summer from college, Mitchell worked at a restaurant owned by a Bulgarian ...

Thirty years ago an all-female folk choir set up in Bulgaria became the darling of Western audiences with its tradition-steeped a cappella singing, before the fall of communism threatened its survival ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

The allure of the lost is ever-present in the musical world. In this year alone, half a dozen notable lost albums have been released or announced, including projects from artists as varied as past ...

Bulgarian folk singer Katya Mincheva may be just over a meter tall, but her voice reaches the heavens. Her heart that carries an entire village, and she has never let her height hold her back. Katya ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In November 2019, Smithsonian Folkways released Martin Koenig’s documentation of Bulgarian folk music and culture as ‘Sound Portraits from ...

In Bulgaria, both Orthodox and Catholic Christians celebrate Easter, with the latter usually coming a few days before. Every so often, such as this year, the two take place on the same day. People of ...