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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 ...
This music is very special within the context of ancient Romanian folk music, because it assimilates Ukrainian and Jewish folk music in a unique way, the two populations having shared land for ...
It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation of Hungarian, Bulgarian, Magyar and Romanian folk music.
The music was extremely well-received in Romania because of the direct references to commonly known folk melodies, but American listeners need not be Romanian musicologists to enjoy this music and the ...
Romanian speed folk brass band music—via a Prince fan from Guelph Guelph, Ont.’s Adrian Raso and his Romanian jazz collaborators are finally taking their prize-winning, European chart-topping ...
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 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 ...
Bartok's obsession with folk music fueled his career. The Hungarian band Muzsikas joins the Takacs String Quartet for a concert of Bartok's own music, and the peasant dances and that inspired him.
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 ...