Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

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 ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Romania is full of surprises and wonderful people. And as you leave the capital of Bucharest, it gets even better. In the countryside, the history and traditional culture survive vividly. A ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired folklore of dinosaur eggs, plant fossils and alien creations. When you ...

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 ...

Graeme Smith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to a decision adopted on Thursday by the Sibiu County Council, the professional folk ensemble 'Cindrelul - Junii Sibiului' will represent Romania at the EuropaFest cultural festival running ...