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 ...

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 ...

The back room at Balliceaux is filled with complimentary cups of Kool-Aid-red borscht. No, we aren’t all about to lie down and sleep until the comet arrives — but everyone here is ready to join the ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

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 ...

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 ...