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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 musical guest at Coldplay’s recent concert in Bucharest, Romania, was booed by fans for singing manele, a genre of Romanian pop-folk. The four-piece rock band was performing at the city’s Arena ...

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 ...

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 ...