A night unlike any other arrives on the island’s west coast as Technopolis 20 hosts the Balkan Mosaic: A Journey Through Music and Tradition. Tomorrow the cultural centre’s garden will fill with ...

Inspector Gadje performs with Ismail Lumanovski at a Kafana Balkan party at the Rickshaw Stop. The 18th annual edition takes place Saturday, March 8, 2025. Credit: John Nilsen At first glance, the ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

Clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski has already broken new ground several times in his short career. Best known as the driving force behind the New York Gypsy All Stars, he’s the first Roma reed ...

Serbian pianist and composer Tihomir Stojiljkovic offers a fresh and captivating look at the rich musical traditions of the Balkans, seamlessly blending them with the improvisational spirit of modern ...

FEELGOOD FOLK Clarinet master Ismail Lumanovski (left) and Marco Peris, Inspector Gadje manager and drummer, are featured in ‘Balkancisco.’ (Photo courtesy of Balkcancisco) Once a week, in San ...

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.

SHANDAKEN, NY — The Phoenicia Library will celebrate the music and dance of the Balkan peninsula with a free festival of musical and choral groups playing and singing odd meters and unusual scales and ...

The Sarajevo Beer Festival, commonly abbreviated as SBF, drew both old and young attendees, and Bosnian locals rubbed shoulders with tourists from all over the world. The festival embodied a ...

A map of last December's YouTube hits shows that music fans in several Balkan countries still prefer their local bands to top international songs – though audiences in Croatia, Macedonia and Romania ...