In this live virtual class, participants will explore Bulgarian Folk Singing with Elitsa Stoyneva Krastev, a seven-time gold medalist in traditional folk singing from Targovishte, Bulgaria. Elista ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s department of ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back on a collection of Communist-era Bulgarian folk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hell-On, Case's first self-produced work, came out June 1. The singer-songwriter talked to NPR's Scott Simon about the fire, making up her own superstitions for the album and relating to Bulgarian ...

A cappella singing requires finely tuned togetherness. To be fair, that’s true of any live performance, be it dance, theater, burlesque or whatever. But the nakedness and vulnerability of voice-only ...